Beer in the Snooker Club |
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Author:
| Ghali, Waguih |
ISBN: | 978-0-941533-81-2 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1999 |
Publisher: | Ivan R. Dee Publisher
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Imprint: | New Amsterdam Books |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $17.90 |
Book Description:
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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
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