Proud Beggars

Name: Proud Beggars
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ISBN: 9781590174425

ISBN-10: 1590174429

ISBN-13: 9781590174425

Edition: 2011

Authors: Albert Cossery, Thomas W. Cushing, Alyson Waters

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Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery's wry black comedy is not the cause of this death, but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery's characteristically proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned beggar, whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute from her miserable life.…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 12/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.03" wide x 7.92" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Albert Cossery (1913-2008) was an Egyptian-born French novelist. Among his works are The Colors of Infamy, A Splendid Conspiracy, and The House of Certain Death, all published by New Directions.