Beer in the Snooker Club

Fiction & Literature, Cultural Heritage, Literary
Cover of the book Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Waguih Ghali ISBN: 9780804170758
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: June 10, 2014
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Waguih Ghali
ISBN: 9780804170758
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: June 10, 2014
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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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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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