Beer in the Snooker Club

Informationen zum Autor Born and brought up in Cairo, Waguih Ghali spent much of his adult life in Europe. His stay in London and his suicide in 1969 were described by his friend Diana Athill in After a Funeral (Cape, 1986). Beer in the Snooker Club is his only novel. Klappentext Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass in Nasser's Egypt, so Ram and Font have to make do with a heady mixture of beer, vodka and whisky. Yearning for Bass they long to be far from a revolution that neither serves the people nor allows their rich aunts to live the life of leisure they are accustomed to. Stranded between two cultures, Ram and Font must choose between dangerous political opposition and reluctant acquiescence. First published in 1964, Beer in the Snooker Club is a classic of the literature of emigration.Known and loved by readers and writers since first publication, now back in print as a Serpent's Tail Classic Zusammenfassung Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass in Nasser's Egypt, so Ram and Font have to make do with a heady mixture of beer, vodka and whisky.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Waguih Ghali, Ghali Waguih
• Collaboration: Diana Athill (Introduction), Athill Diana (Introduction)
• Edition: Serpent's Tail
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 02.12.2010
• EAN: 9781846687563
• ISBN: 978-1-84668-756-3
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Thèmes: Serpent's Tail Classics; Serpent's Tail Classics
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary