Beer in the Snooker Club
Waguih Ghali was raised in Cairo but spent much of his adult life studying and working in Europe. In Beer in the Snooker Club, Ghali chronicles the lives of Cairo's upper crust who, after the fall of King Farouk, are thoroughly unprepared to change its neo-feudal ways. Beer in the Snooker Club...
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Waguih Ghali was raised in Cairo but spent much of his adult life studying and working in Europe. In Beer in the Snooker Club, Ghali chronicles the lives of Cairo's upper crust who, after the fall of King Farouk, are thoroughly unprepared to change its neo-feudal ways. Beer in the Snooker Club was the only book written by Ghali before his suicide in 1968. "Ghali's novel reproduces a cultural state of shock with great accuracy and great humor."–James Marcus of The Nation
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780804170741 (0804170746)
Publish date: May 20th 2014
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
كم من أبطال للروايات قرأنا عنهم و احتملنا شكواهم عن "الأزمة الطاحنة بين هويتين" عربي ذو أصول غربية أو العكس، مسلم ذو أقارب مسيحيين أو يهود و العكس ، ،،،أما هنا فالأمر يختلف،،،،،بداية من غلاف الطبعة الجديدة للرواية ـ الصادرة حديثا عن دار الشروق ـ تستطيع أن تري رموزا لهويات مختلفة دينية و ثقافية و ...
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