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208 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590174425
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication date: 27 December 2011
Description
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...
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208 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590174425
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication date: 27 December 2011
Description
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...