Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery, Thomas W. Cushing

208 pages first pub 1955 (editions)

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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 mo...

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