Beer in the Snooker Club

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780941533812
  • 28 januari 1990
  • 222 pagina's
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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.

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28 januari 1990
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222
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Hoofdauteur
Waguih Ghali
Tweede Auteur
Diana Athill
Hoofduitgeverij
New Amsterdam Books

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Beer in the Snooker Club

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144 mm
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15 mm
Verpakking lengte
217 mm
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272 g

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  • Perfect first introduction to Egypt in the 1950s and -60s

    With the 2011 Egyptian Revolution in slow progress, the 2010 re-issue of this beautiful novel first published in 1964 (reprinted in 1987) is opportune. It provides a time capsule of pre- and post-1952 revolutionary Egypt until the early 1960s as seen by Ram, a poor member of Egypt's old elite in which males tended to die young and widows managed their estates.
    Even after 1952 , Egypt had a small, super-rich elite of Muslims, Coptic Christians and Jews, living in Cairo or Alexandria, well-educated, speaking French and English and knowing little Arabic. The (land-owning) upper class long thrived by pulling strings, nepotism, intermarriage within their own religious communities, and a vibrant social circuit. They routinely travelled abroad or spent the hot summer months in Alexandria. Their children drove cars, gambled and drank heavily in elite Cairo waterholes like Groppi's.
    This semi-autobiographical novel is all about poor, Coptic Ram and his growing confusion. He has none of the entitlements of his elite school fellows. His dad did not leave him or his mother a fortune, but still, a nice apartment and rich aunts. As a recognized full member of the elite, his friends pay his bar tabs, give him the key to their cars and another key to a jointly-rented apartment equipped with beds only...
    A holiday trip to the UK with his enigmatic lover Edna and youth friend Font challenges all the knowledge acquired from reading "thousands" of books together. In the UK, Ram's sense of self splits: a Sunday dinner with an English family full of political contradictions leads to a mild form of disengagement: one part of Ram acts, talks, plays the smartly-westernized, white Egyptian, the other part watches him doing it. Here this reader stops. Enjoy!
    Finally, the 2011 Egyptian Revolution is complete when this book is translated into Arabic and for sale in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt.

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