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The Jokers
Written by Albert Cossery
Translated by Anna Moschovakis
Introduction by James Buchan

Trade Paperback | 232 pages | NYRB Classics | Fiction - Literary
978-1-59017-325-1 (1-59017-325-2)

July 13, 2010 | $17.95

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The Jokers
Written by Albert Cossery, Translated by Anna Moschovakis, Introduction by James Buchan

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590173251
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Who are the jokers?

 

The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious character of unequaled incompetence who presides over the nameless Middle Eastern city where this effervescent comedy by Albert Cossery is set.

 

The jokers are also the revolutionaries, no less bumbling and...



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book cover
The Jokers
Written by Albert Cossery
Translated by Anna Moschovakis
Introduction by James Buchan

eBook | 232 pages | NYRB Classics | Fiction - Literary
978-1-59017-401-2 (1-59017-401-1)

July 13, 2010 | $14.95



Who are the jokers?

The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious character of unequaled incompetence who presides over the nameless Middle Eastern city where this effervescent comedy by Albert Cossery is set.

The jokers are also the revolutionaries, no less bumbling and...

Also available as a trade paperback.

              
              



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