Dr Ragab's Universal Language
Clever, funny, and thought-provoking, this quirky tale about the power of the mind is both larger than life and beyond belief, it is, like Dr. R himself, impossible to pin down—or, indeed, to put down

Charlatan, guru, master of disguise, a simple opportunist or the great pretender— however one chooses to see him, one fact is certain: Dr. Ragab is a mysterious man. Talked about by everyone in 1920s Cairo, only a few get the chance to make his acquaintance, and fewer still—one person, in fact—get to study his life lessons. Hertwig is that lucky soul—or not so lucky, perhaps, not when he finds himself, at the very end of the second world war, imprisoned in a bunker by a gang of thugs. And yet there is a possible way out. Not in the conventional sense, it's true, but when you're holed up several feet underground, unsure of how long your captors plan to keep you alive, convention isn't necessarily a good thing, as Dr. Ragab would be the first to proclaim—and it's his Universal Language that may just provide Hertwig with the escape route he needs. As unconventional as the eponymous Ragab, this novel takes the reader on a surreal journey from Ealing to Egypt, via Germany.

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Dr Ragab's Universal Language
Clever, funny, and thought-provoking, this quirky tale about the power of the mind is both larger than life and beyond belief, it is, like Dr. R himself, impossible to pin down—or, indeed, to put down

Charlatan, guru, master of disguise, a simple opportunist or the great pretender— however one chooses to see him, one fact is certain: Dr. Ragab is a mysterious man. Talked about by everyone in 1920s Cairo, only a few get the chance to make his acquaintance, and fewer still—one person, in fact—get to study his life lessons. Hertwig is that lucky soul—or not so lucky, perhaps, not when he finds himself, at the very end of the second world war, imprisoned in a bunker by a gang of thugs. And yet there is a possible way out. Not in the conventional sense, it's true, but when you're holed up several feet underground, unsure of how long your captors plan to keep you alive, convention isn't necessarily a good thing, as Dr. Ragab would be the first to proclaim—and it's his Universal Language that may just provide Hertwig with the escape route he needs. As unconventional as the eponymous Ragab, this novel takes the reader on a surreal journey from Ealing to Egypt, via Germany.

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Dr Ragab's Universal Language

Dr Ragab's Universal Language

by Robert Twigger
Dr Ragab's Universal Language

Dr Ragab's Universal Language

by Robert Twigger

Overview

Clever, funny, and thought-provoking, this quirky tale about the power of the mind is both larger than life and beyond belief, it is, like Dr. R himself, impossible to pin down—or, indeed, to put down

Charlatan, guru, master of disguise, a simple opportunist or the great pretender— however one chooses to see him, one fact is certain: Dr. Ragab is a mysterious man. Talked about by everyone in 1920s Cairo, only a few get the chance to make his acquaintance, and fewer still—one person, in fact—get to study his life lessons. Hertwig is that lucky soul—or not so lucky, perhaps, not when he finds himself, at the very end of the second world war, imprisoned in a bunker by a gang of thugs. And yet there is a possible way out. Not in the conventional sense, it's true, but when you're holed up several feet underground, unsure of how long your captors plan to keep you alive, convention isn't necessarily a good thing, as Dr. Ragab would be the first to proclaim—and it's his Universal Language that may just provide Hertwig with the escape route he needs. As unconventional as the eponymous Ragab, this novel takes the reader on a surreal journey from Ealing to Egypt, via Germany.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780330427470
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication date: 11/28/2011
Pages: 266
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Robert Twigger is an explorer and the author of numerous books, including The Extinction Club, Real Men Eat Puffer Fish, and Angry White Pyjamas, for which he won the Somerset Maugham and William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards. In addition to writing books, he has contributed to Esquire, Lonely Planet Magazine, and Maxim.

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