Beer in the Snooker Club

Description

Beer In The Snooker Club is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Egyptian writer Waguih Ghali written in English and first published in 1964. On the surface, the novel reads as a typical post-colonial novel; the Francophone, British educated Egyptian Coptic protagonists struggle with their conflicting allegiances to the English culture that produced and imposed colonialism, and to the Egyptian revolution that opposed colonialism but also implemented repressive domestic policies. The novel ultimately rejects the mediated binaries of post-coloniality, searching instead for a notion of cosmopolitan identity, defined both as a historically and locally situated urban subject and as a politically engaged 'citizen of the world'. About the Author......Page 2 Title Page......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Introduction......Page 6 Part I......Page 16 Part II......Page 45 Part III......Page 106 Part IV......Page 139 Part V......Page 155