Description
A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as "the Voltaire of the Nile"
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, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another savagely defends the household from women. Serag, the youngest, is the only member of the family interested in getting a job. But even he — try as he might — has a hard time resisting the call of laziness.
Reviews
"Despite the seemingly unrelieved gloom and futility in which his figures move, Cossery nevertheless expresses in every work the indomitable faith in the power of people to throw off the yoke." — Henry Miller
Also By: Albert Cossery 
The Colors of Infamy
E Book, 2012
A delightful, deeply funny novel about the triumph of the perfect prankster — an elegant gentleman pickpocket in Cairo.
The Colors of Infamy
Paperback, 2012
A delightful, deeply funny novel about the triumph of the perfect prankster — an elegant gentleman pickpocket in Cairo.
Also By: Henry Miller
The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
Paperback, 1962
This study is not literary criticism but a fascinating chapter in Miller's own spiritual autobiography.Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Paperback, 1962
The Wisdom of the Heart
Paperback, 2017
An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdom
The Wisdom of the Heart
E Book, 2016
An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdom
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
E Book, 2014
Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his “most singular story.”
Also By: Anna Della Subin
The Hospital
Paperback, 2018
A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic
The Hospital
E Book, 2018
A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic
