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Děj prózy Ambice v poušti (1984), předposledního románu Alberta Cosseryho, se odehrává ve fiktivním malém emirátu, jenž díky naprosté absenci ropných zdrojů stojí na rozdíl od okolních států stranou pozornosti těžebních společností. Tento blahodárný stav je však od jisté doby narušován pravidelnými sériemi bombových útoků, jejichž zfušovaná podoba a mizivý dopad zůstávají záhadou. Hlavní hrdina Samantar, který „vždy děkoval prozřetelnosti za to, že se narodil na chudé půdě, neboť věděl, že bída nikterak neláká hrabivost...

Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another savagely defends the household from women. Serag, the youngest, is the only member of the family interested in getting a job. But even he try as he might has a hard time resisting the call of laziness. "

One fat victim ( everything about him oozed opulence and theft on a grand scale ) is relieved of his crocodile wallet. In it Ossama finds not just a gratifying amount of cash, but also a letter a letter from the Ministry of Public Works, cutting off its ties to the fat man. A source of rich bribes heretofore, the fat man is now too hot to handle; he s a fabulously wealthy real-estate developer, lately much in the news because one of his cheap buildings has just collapsed, killing 50 tenants. Ossama by some divine decree has become the repository of a scandal of epic proportions. And so he...