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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cosseryâs 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 Cosseryâs proud beggars is Goha, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Peghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer, and El Kordi, an intellectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute. The police investigator Nour El Dine, harboring a dark secret of his own, suspects all three of the murder but finds himself captivated by their warm good humor. Do they, despite their rejection of social norms and all ambition, hold the secret of contentment? 177p.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 208 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!