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BOOK DETAIL

De NIRO'S GAME

AUTHOR

Rawi Hage

PUBLISH DATE

July 2007

PRICE

£11.99

ISBN

ISBN13: 978-1-905847-22-8

FORMAT

Paperback

EXTENT

288 Pages

De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage wins the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2008 - largest prize of its kind for a single work of fiction published in English, with a €100,000 jackpot! Rawi will be available for interview in the UK from the 9th - 14th July and will be appearing at the London Literature Festival in association with Diaspora Dialogues on Thursday, 10th July

http://www.londonlitfest.com/events/types/tales-city/

With his brilliant first novel, Rawi Hage plunges us into his breathtaking, timely, moving and genre-defying novel about two young men trying to survive war in Beirut, Lebanon, during the civil war of 1984.

Childhood best friends, Lebanese Christian boys Bassam and George are faced with two choices for survival: to leave their home and take a chance in a foreign city, or join the corrupt militia and gain a foothold in Beirut. Bassam becomes obsessed with leaving Beirut, and commits a series of petty crimes to fund his flight. George amasses power in the militia-ruled underworld, and lives a life of violence and crime for profit. Inevitably, their separate paths collide, explosively and tragically.

De Niro’s Game illuminates civil-war era Lebanon, and in doing so sheds some light on an Arab world that is often misunderstood here in the West. Through flesh-and-blood characters, a gut-wrenching plot, and incandescent language Hage manages to get at the truth through his extraordinary work of fiction. which has the power to transcend the media images of the Middle East.

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The Critics


	'De Niro’s Game is the most subtly nuanced, psychologically compelling book about the corrosive effects of war to have been written for a long time...'	FT MAGAZINE

	“De Niro’s Game is an engrossing novel, seeming to transport the reader into the place, time and atmosphere of the Lebanese civil war. It is a fiction but treats very serious human issues, allowing the reader’s imagination bring the action,places and characters to life.”	BANIPAL


	‘As if the TV screen suddenly dissolved and you found yourself drawn inside the Lebanon war in all its three dimensions. Vivid, dreamy prose. A fabulous book.’	LINDA GRANT, winner of The Orange Prize


	“De Niro’s Game is an unflinching and timely look at the shattering of relationships in a war-torn world.”	GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD JURY


	“Camus on a motorbike . . . mixed in with all the dirty treasure of existentialism — apathy, suicide, absurdity, and loss — are warmth, hope, and sympathy.”	COLIN McADAM, author of Some Great Thing


	“De Niro’s Game is a feverish nightmare of a book, written with a distinctly European flair . . . it stubbornly refuses to offer the reader any easy comfort . . . [readers] will be seduced by the undoubted visceral power of this suddenly current narrative.”	TORONTO STAR

The Author

Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He emigrated to Canada in 1992. He is a writer, visual artist, and curator. His writing has appeared in numerous journals, and his visual art has been shown in galleries and museums around the world.

Rawi Hage lives in Montreal.

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