Rawi Hage, Author . Steerforth $23.95 (277p) ISBN 978-1-58195-223-0
This aggressive, prize-winning Canadian import debut recounts the fate of two childhood friends in war-ravaged Beirut. Narrator Bassam dreams of leaving Beirut, where there is "not enough [money] for cigarettes, a nagging mother, and food,"...
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Rawi Hage, Author . Norton $23.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-393-07537-3
With a surprising degree of humor, Hage's second novel (after IMPAC Dublin-winner DeNiro's Game
) explores the peculiar politics of Montreal's immigrant communities through the bleak obsessions of a misanthropic thief. After trying...
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Rawi Hage. Norton, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-07242-6
Beirut-born Hage’s third novel (after Cockroach) is a dreamlike pastiche of vignettes narrated by a cabdriver and set in the run up to the carnival in fictional Carnival city. Main character Fly is no ordinary cabbie. Fly was born in a circus to a...
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Rawi Hage. Norton, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-324-00291-8
After his eccentric undertaker father is killed by a stray artillery shell, Pavlov, a brooding and isolated young man, assumes control of the family business in Beirut in this potent novel from Hage (De Niro’s Game). Pavlov’s new responsibilities...
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