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...