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Beer in the Snooker Club

By Waguih Ghali
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

By Waguih Ghali
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

By Waguih Ghali
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

By Waguih Ghali
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $18.00

Jun 10, 2014 | ISBN 9780804170741

Ebook $4.99

Jun 10, 2014 | ISBN 9780804170758

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    About 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 revolutionary activities to support Egyptian independence. By turns biting and comic, Beer in the Snooker Club — the first and only book by Waguih Ghali — became a cult classic when it was first published and remains a timeless portrait of a loveable rogue coming of age in turbulent times.

    About 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 revolutionary activities to support Egyptian independence. By turns biting and comic, Beer in the Snooker Club — the first and only book by Waguih Ghali — became a cult classic when it was first published and remains a timeless portrait of a loveable rogue coming of age in turbulent times.

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    About Waguih Ghali

    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… More about Waguih Ghali

    About Waguih Ghali

    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… More about Waguih Ghali

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 10, 2014 | 224 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780804170741

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 10, 2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780804170758

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    Praise

    “One of the best novels about Egypt ever written.”
    —Adhaf Soueif

    “Like The Catcher in the Rye in America, [Beer in the Snooker Club] articulated the identity crisis of a generation. . . . [The novel] presents uncanny parallels to today’s Egypt, where artists, intellectuals and youth at large are beginning to fashion a new cultural republic of sorts even as they also struggle to find their bearings.”
    —The New York Times

    “[Ghali is] a plainspoken writer of consummate wryness, grace and humor.”
    —Los Angeles Times

    “[The] novel reproduces a cultural state of shock with great accuracy and great humor.”
    —The Nation

    “A triumph of genuinely comic social satire.”
    —The Times Literary Supplement (London)

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