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Beirut hellfire society by rawi hage6/1/2023 Politically astute, philosophically wise, humane, relevant and caustically funny, these stories reveal the singular vision of award-winning writer Rawi Hage at his best. The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states-nation-states and states of mind-seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing and often random ways our fragile modern identities are constructed, destroyed, and reborn. And in Berlin, a Lebanese writer forms a fragile, fateful bond with his voluble German neighbours. Beirut Hellfire Society is at once propulsive, elegiac, outrageous, profane and transcendenta profoundly moving meditation on what it means to live through war. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receives haunting news from the Persian Gulf. Here is an exhilarating, subversive, beautiful and timely new work that reinforces Rawi Hages status as one of our most original, necessary, fearless and important writers. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEįrom the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.
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