Dr. Ragab's Universal Language

Resumen del libro

Charlatan. Guru. Master of disguise. Ahead of his time, wise beyond his years, a simple opportunist or the great pretender; however you choose to see him, one fact is certain: Dr Ragab is a mysterious man. Talked about by pretty much 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.

Biografía del autor

Robert Twigger es un escritor, poeta y aventurero británico. Tras su paso por la Universidad de Oxford, estuvo un tiempo entrenándose con los antidisturbios de Tokio, lo que convirtió en el tema principal de su libro Angry White Pyjamas. Ha sido galardonado con el Newdigate Prize de poesía, el Somerset Maugham Award de Literatura y el William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Lideró la expedición que cruzó por primera vez el gran mar de arena del Sáhara egipcio a pie y la que cruzó por primera vez el oeste de Canadá en una canoa tradicional desde 1793. Ha escrito nueve libros de ficción y no ficción y varios de poesía.