The Hashish Waiter
The Hashish Waiter
- ISBN 13:
9789774163005
- ISBN 10:
9774163001
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 07/01/2011
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Newer Edition
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Summary
Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gathers regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeem's den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge and a stimulus, and at the center of the den is the remarkable man who keeps their hashish bowls topped up'”Saleh Bedlam. While his former life is a mystery to his loyal clientele of writers, painters, film directors, and even window dressers, each sees himself reflected in Saleh; but without his humor, humility, or insight, or his occasional passions fueled by hootch. And when the nation has to face its own demons during the peace initiative of the 1970s, it is Saleh Bedlam who speaks for them all. This is a comic novel with a broken heart very like Saleh himself, whose warm rough voice calls out long after we have recovered from the novel's painful conclusion.