Beer in the Snooker Club (Twentieth Century Lives)
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Author(s)Waguih Ghali
PublisherNew Amsterdam Books
ISBN / ASIN0941533816
ISBN-139780941533812
Sales Rank1,367,726
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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This reissue of the late Waguih Ghali's only novel makes us mourn his loss all the more keenly. A plainspoken writer of consummate wryness, grace, and humor, the Egyptian author chronicles the lives of a polyglot Cairene upper crust, shortly after the fall of King Farouk, who are thoroughly unprepared to change their neo-feudal ways. "This is the best book to date about post-Farouk Egypt."—Sylvie Drake, Los Angeles Times