Cockroach On My Shoulder

Richard Newman

• 07 juni 2021
• 9781802270242

Samenvatting:

In 1975 Doha was a frontier town as ex-pats flooded in to Qatar to help build a new country. Richard Newman, an Architect was one of them as he upended himself and his family into a Gulf Air Tristar and flew out to the unknown, slightly alien sounding country hanging on the side of Saudi Arabia. Registering as an alcoholic, dealing with baksheesh , discussing a new building with The Ruler saying '....taller Mr. Richard, taller**....**' were daily events.

As Richard grappled with setting up an Architectural office he found humour was everywhere, but it also masked the vanishing traditions beneath a veneer of glitter, gilt and gold.

Now, forty years on the country is to play host to the World Cup Games in 2022. 128