Beer in the Snooker Club - Paperback
by Waguih Ghali
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Availability:In StockContributor:Waguih Ghali, Pankaj Mishra (Introduction by)Series:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2014-06-10Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780804170741ISBN-10:804170746UPC:9780804170741Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Cultural Heritage, Literary, PoliticalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCH8JGNM2Z
Beer in the Snooker Club
Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in. Ram's favorite haunt is the fashionable Cairo Snooker Club, whose members strive to emulate English gentility; but his best friends are young intellectuals who devour the works of Sartre and engage in dangerous...
Series: Vintage International
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780804170741ISBN-10:804170746UPC:9780804170741Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Cultural Heritage, Literary, PoliticalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCH8JGNM2Z
Waguih Ghali was born in Cairo on February 25th, most likely in 1930. He attended high school in Alexandria and then studied abroad in Europe. Fearing political persecution, he fled Egypt in 1958 and lived in London, also spending time in France, Sweden, and Germany. Ghali authored several personal essays, which appeared in The Guardian between 1957 and 1965. He also spent time as a freelance...
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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