Proud Beggars

Proud BeggarsBy: Albert Cossery Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cosserys 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 Cosserys proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native

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