Beer in the Snooker Club

Beer in the Snooker Club
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Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781461663249
ISBN-13 : 1461663245
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Book Synopsis Beer in the Snooker Club by : Waguih Ghali

Download or read book Beer in the Snooker Club written by Waguih Ghali and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1999-11-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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