Rawi Hage
Birth date: January 01, 1964
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BEIRUT HELLFIRE SOCIETY by Rawi Hage This tale presents the raw outrage, fear, misery, and indelible sadness of a country at war. The writing is excellent. Unfortunately, it is so filled with sex and depravity that I can not recommend this book. After having to force myself to read past the first fe...
I remembered, as I started, that I have actually encountered Rawi Hage before (I read De Niro's Game some years ago, though I don't seem to have recorded it here). Both then and now, I ran into a problem, probably at least as much mine as the author's. I simply find myself completely out of sympathy...
Title: Carnival Who wrote it? IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, McAuslan First Book Prize, and two time Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction winner Rawi Hage, author of De Niro's Game and Cockroach. Plot in a box: A son of the circus drives a taxi around an unnamed metropolis. Invent a new title for th...
I've been reading books lately that run toward metaphor's or allusion's finish line, using a relay of plot points like cardboard cut-outs and characters that one can't completely sink into.That said, I love the way Hage writes. I love Fly's observation of the Spiders. I love the way he organizes his...
Vague, rambling, beautiful, shocking, disturbing, intelligent, fantastical...Pick a word, any word. It will probably go towards describing this book in some way.This is a very grown-up book. It's one of those books that you have no chance of understanding while still growing-up and probably won't un...
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