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  • Engels
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  • 9780804170758
  • 10 juni 2014
  • 240 pagina's
  • Adobe ePub
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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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Waguih Ghali
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Diana Athill
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Beer in the Snooker Club

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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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