Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Cossery, Albert; Moschovakis, Anna; Buchan, James |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 7/13/2010 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Who are the jokers?
The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of allis the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious character of unequaled incompetencewho presides over the nameless Middle Eastern city where this effervescent comedyby Albert Cossery is set.
The jokers are also the revolutionaries, no less bumblingand no less infatuated with the trappings of power than the government they oppose.
And the jokers are Karim, Omar, Heykal, Urfy, and their friends, free spirits whosee the other jokers for the jokers they are and have cooked up a sophisticated and,most important, foolproof plan to enliven public life with a dash of subversive humor.
The joke is on them all.
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