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.