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...
Very good. Very dark and quite creepy at some points, but extremely interesting and a great literary read. Saw Hage in an interview at school and am glad that he didn't speak before I read the book because he interprets his characters completely different than the way I did. Hage uses strong metapho...
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