# Proud Beggars

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- Book: [Proud Beggars](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-cossery/proud-beggars) ([Proud Beggars.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-cossery/proud-beggars.md))
- Authors: [Albert Cossery](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-cossery), [Alyson Waters](https://www.bookquiver.com/alyson-waters), [Thomas W. Cushing](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-w-cushing)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-442-5
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2011-12-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...