Category: 2002

DIAMOND DUST by Peter Lovesey

2002 / Crime / Europe & the Middle East / Fiction / Reviews / UK itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment

I have only fairly recently encountered the wonderful Peter Diamond detective series, so forgive me if I’m late to this particular appreciation society. Diamond Dust, published in 2002, is the best and the most moving of Mr. Lovesey’s books that I’ve read so far. This book, the 7th in the …

THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING by ALAA AL ASWANEY

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Alaa Al Aswany’s novel, “The Yacoubian Building” is an endearing tale of life in Cairo, in the period of political and religious turmoil during the first Gulf War. The famous, formerly elegant Yacoubian Building is now a tad run down, and home to a host of characters, some of whom …