His eyes “shine with a glimmer of perpetual amusement”; his sartorial taste is impeccable; Ossama is “a thief, not a legitimated thief, such as a minister, banker, or real-estate developer; he is a mo
"Cossery argues the futility of locking horns with your oppressor...Far more effective-and far more natural-to undermine it by mockery and ridicule, as happens in this book to hilarious effect."-The I
Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery’s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle — slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, wa
