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De Niro's Game de Rawi Hage

De Niro's Game

Autor Rawi Hage
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2013
De Niro's Gameis the stunning winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the very first novel by up-and-coming Lebanese literary star Rawi Hage, also author ofCockroach.

Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian side of war-torn Beirut. Now on the verge of adulthood, they must choose their futures: to remain in the exhausted, corrupt city of their birth, or to go into exile abroad, cut off from the only existence they have known.

Bassam chooses one path - obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to fund his escape to the West. Meanwhile, George amasses power in the underworld of the city, embracing a life of military service, organised crime, killing, and drugs. But their two paths inevitably
collide, with explosive consequences.

De Niro's Gameis Rawi Hage's devastating, timely portrait of two young men and an entire city formed and deformed by war.

'A large and unsettling talent'Guardian

'A masterpiece . . . writing cannot really get much better'Literary Review

'Hollywood noir meets opium dreams in a blasted landscape of war-wasted young lives'Boston Globe

'The most subtly nuanced, psychologically compelling book about the corrosive effects of war to be written for a long time . . .The descriptions of the city are so skilful you can taste the dust in the air'Financial Times


Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He is the author ofDe Niro's Game, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award;Cockroach,which was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize and also listed for various other prizes; andCarnival, to be published by Hamish Hamilton/ Penguin in April 2013. He lives in Montreal.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241964910
ISBN-10: 0241964911
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war during the 1970s and 1980s. He emigrated to Canada in 1992 and now lives in Montreal. His first novel, De Niro's Game, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the best English-language book published anywhere in the world in a given year, and has either won or been shortlisted for seven other major awards and prizes. Cockroach was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Recenzii

“...a hallucinatory vision of how war corrupts even friendship. Written in English and calling upon Arabic poetry and French philosophy, De Niro’s Game forms an intriguing trilingual hybrid that should cement its appeal worldwide.” — Washington Post
“...an impressive first outing for Hage.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“East meets West in this stunning first novel yielding a totally fresh perspective on war-torn Beirut.” — Booklist (starred review)
“...the language, restless, enervated, slides from blunt and colorless to the candenced, figuring [the protagonist’s] world’s endless cycle of revolution and despair...Remarkable.” — Los Angeles Times
“Hage brilliantly condenses these short, incendiary lives: while the setting is relatively contemporary, the conflict and language are centuries old.” — The Guardian (London)
“...vividly evocative of the chaos of conflict and the moral confusion of young men. — Daily Telegraph (London)
“...Hollywood noir meets opium dreams in a blasted landscape of war-wasted young lives.” — Boston Globe
“Rawi Hage’s debut novel burns with a white-hot brilliance...” — Charlotte Observer
“...you’ll find it hard not to think of the fevered dream of Howl.” — Village Voice
“...a soaring, lyrical triumph...this novel isn’t reportage; it’s troubling and transcendent art. — Washington City Paper
“Hage is a talented and versatile writer who will certainly raise the threshold of Anglophone Arab-Canadian fiction.” — The International Fiction Review (online)
“Oustanding...this extraordinary novel of two young men surrounded by the violence and tragedy of the Lebanese Civil War hits you in the stomach. Do support it.” — Bookseller (London)
“Canadian author Rawi Hage’s exhilarating debut novel captures a dreamlike, cacophonous Beirut during the Lebanese civil war...Hage’s scattergun prose[’s]... impact lingers long after the last bomb has landed.” — The Observer (England)
“It is a viciously intense, poetically raw story, interspersed with moments of dark humor...” — BookBrowse.com