De Niro's Game - Softcover

Rawi Hage

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241964911 ISBN 13: 9780241964910

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Language: English Publisher:. Hamish Hamilton De Niros Game is 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 of Cockroach 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 Niros Game is Rawi...

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0241964911
• ISBN 13: 9780241964910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288