Whilst in London, Ram and Font drank many a pint of Bass. But there is no Bass in Nasser's Egypt, so the duo make do with beer, vodka and whisky. Yearning for their drink of choice - and to be far away from a revolution that serves no-one - Ram and Font must choose between dangerous political opposition and reluctant acquiescence.
Whilst in London, Ram and Font drank many a pint of Bass. But there is no Bass in Nasser's Egypt, so the duo make do with beer, vodka and whisky. Year...
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...
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 st...
