A Splendid Conspiracy [Paperback]

Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as study), our hero Teymourin the opening line ofA legend&His caustic satire burned like the desert sun, undermining all forms of authority. Cossery despised materialism and eschewed the rat race... The overt message [is] that paradise is not lost, but most of us are too busy to bask in the Edenic simplicity of the world.I never see anything anywhere like it. All of Cosserys books have a rare, exotic, haunting, unique flavor.Above all Cossery, one of the last and quirkiest links to the postwar glory days of St. Germain-de-Pres, elevated idleness to an art form.Three friends in a small Egyptian city celebrate idleness, elegance, and