De Niro's Game - Couverture souple

Hage, Rawi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905847386 ISBN 13 : 9781905847389

Editeur : Old Street Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Rare book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 Niro's Game is a devastating, timely portrait of two young men and an entire city formed and deformed by war.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rawi Hage was born in Beirut and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He is a writer, a visual artist, and a curator, and he resides in Montreal. First published in Canada, De Niro's Game was a finalist for that nation's top literary prizes—the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Writers' Trust Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize—and won the McAuslan First Book Prize and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Old Street Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905847386
• ISBN 13: 9781905847389
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 281
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible