Growing up in war-torn Beirut, Bassam and George, best friends since childhood, each confront a choice between staying in the city and consolidating power through crime, or to seek safety in exile abroad, alienated from everything they know, in a debut novel about two young men caught up in Lebanon's civil war. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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This aggressive, prize-winning Canadian import debut recounts the fate of two childhood friends in war-ravaged Beirut. Hage s energetic prose matches the brutality depicted in the novel without overstating the narrative s tragic arc - 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. Both terse and lyrical, Hage s narrative is a wonder, alternately referencing modern American action heroes and ancient Arabic imagery. The blend of the two is as startling as it is beautiful. (Booklist (starred review))
Hage, himself a Lebanese refugee now living in Canada, brings a fierce poetic originality to a tragically familiar story, evoking Bassam s psychological disintegration in a downpour of hallucinatory imagery: Hollywood noir meets opium dreams in a blasted landscape of war-wasted young lives. (Boston Globe)
Rawi Hage was born in Beirut and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. In 1984 he left Lebanon and moved to New York City, working there for several years before emigrating to Canada in 1992, where he has lived ever since. He is a writer, a visual artist, and a curator. His writings have appeared in Fuse Magazine, Minza, Jouvert, The Toronto Review, Montreal Serai, and Al-Jadid. His visual works have been shown in galleries and museums around the world. He resides in Montreal.
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