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Människorna Gud glömde
Inbunden, 2005
258 kr
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Människorna Gud glömde är en samling noveller som utspelar sig i Kairos slum: en brevbärare söker hämnd för den behandling han utsatts för av gatans befolkning, en plåtslagare är besatt av att få veta varför barberaren dödade sin hustru, en tiggarskola hotas av nya farliga idéer Albert Cossery …
Lazy Ones
Häftad, 2027
152 kr
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'Cossery elevated idleness to an art form' The TimesThree brothers live with their father, uncle and maid in a dilapidated Cairo suburb, spending as much time as they possibly can doing nothing whatsoever. But Serag, the youngest of the three, has started having crazy ideas that threaten to shatter …
Colors of Infamy
Häftad, 2011
151 kr
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His eyes “shine with a glimmer of perpetual amusement”; his sartorial taste is impeccable; Ossama is “a thief, not a legitimated thief, such as a minister, banker, or real-estate developer; he is a modest thief.” He knows “that by dressing with the same elegance as the licensed robbers of the …
Lazy people in the fertile valley
E-bok, 2025
49 kr
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Can laziness become a kind of philosophy?!In other words, can laziness be a positive act in the pursuit of pleasure?This is the meaning presented by the Egyptian writer, who writes in French, Albert Cossery, in his novel "Lazy People of the Fertile Valley." He portrays a group of individuals living …
Splendid Conspiracy
Av Albert Cossery, Alyson Waters
Häftad, 2010
169 kr
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Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as “study”), our hero Teymour—in the opening line of A Splendid Conspiracy—is feeling “as unlucky as a flea on a bald man’s head.” Poor Teymour sits forlorn in a provincial café, a far cry from his beloved Paris. Two old friends, …
Laziness in the Fertile Valley
Häftad, 2013
169 kr
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Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery’s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle — slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another savagely defends the household from women. …
