num_pages: 145
description: 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 no less infatuated with the trappings of power than the government they oppose.And the jokers are Karim Omar Heykal Urfy and their friends free spirits who see the other jokers for the jokers they are and have cooked up a sophisticated and most important foolproof plan to enliven public life with a dash of subversive humor.The joke is on them all.
language: English
title: The Jokers
publisher: NYRB Classics