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Title	:	Beer in the Snooker Club
Author	:	Waguih Ghali
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 222 pages
Published	:	November 2nd 1999 by New Amsterdam Books (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Fiction. Northern Africa. Egypt. Novels

Beer in the Snooker Club

Waguih Ghali

Paperback | Pages: 222 pages

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This reissue of the late Waguih Ghali's only novel makes us mourn his loss all the more keenly. A plainspoken writer of consummate wryness, grace, and humor, the Egyptian author chronicles the lives of a polyglot Cairene upper crust, shortly after the fall of King Farouk, who are thoroughly unprepared to change their neo-feudal ways. This is the best book to date about post-Farouk Egypt.-Sylvie Drake, Los Angeles Times

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Original Title:	Beer in the Snooker Club (Twentieth Century Lives)
ISBN:	0941533816 (ISBN13: 9780941533812)
Edition Language:	English

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I've read this book three times and am currently reading it for the fourth time. It's funny because whenever I've reread books, I found that I liked them less. Not so with BitSC. This book is an emotional roller coaster: sad and hilarious, artful and frank, light and profoundall at the same time. It's an understatement to say that this book is about Egypt (although it is), because you will see yourself on its pages no matter where you're from. "Beer in the Snooker Club" is honest writing, which

There is something indescribable about this novel, something that kept me constantly and unknowingly intrigued and captivated. Perhaps it is its dialogue which unlike most of novels that I read so far, made the main element here. What I liked the most was Ram's conversations with Edna. They revealed many of his complexities and inconsistencies. He was seemingly communist, yet still led this life of luxury, consumerism, and drunkenness that characterized his upper class. He detested his mother's

I've never read a book this beautiful about Egypt. I am obsessed with Ghali and Ram and Edna and Font. I think its brilliant; every Egyptian who can read should read this book.

I'm depressed. And that ending is not fooling me. And this has stirred up so many questions about where I want to live, where I belong, what I want to do, what I believe in. And I have none of the answers to these questions. None. Not even the slightest clue. And I feel like crying. And I hate you Waguih, that ending is a lie. You should've written the end of it. Up to the day you left..

'If someone has read an enormous amount of literature, and has a thorough knowledge of contemporary history, from the beginning of this century to the present day, and he has an imagination, and he is intelligent, and he is just, and he is kind, and he cares about other people of all races, and he has enough time to think, and he is honest and sincere, there are two things can happen to him; he can join the Communist Party and then leave it, wallowing in its shortcomings, or he can become mad.

Good Reads giveaway. Thank you.Set in the 1950's, Egypt as a location and yet I learned nothing about either. The main character is a lazy, self absorbed human who leeches off everyone else. I couldn't wait to finish and move on to a more interesting book.

This compelling novel gives a picture of 1950's Cairo that gives a background for understanding the current situation in Egypt. That is only one reason to read it though. Highly readable because of the dialogue and great characters who seem to be a combination of idle rich kids and the lost generation. Those who are educated in England are rudderless when back in Egypt. Ghali's writing has been compared to Camus, Salinger and Walker Percy. It is clearly a book that stands on its own. (Hard to