{"product_id":"carnival-2","title":"Rawi Hage: Carnival [2013] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarnival\u003c\/i\u003e is a new novel from IMPAC Literary Award winner Rawi Hage.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThere are two types of taxi driver in the Carnival city - the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the flies are wanderers - they roam the streets, looking for the raised flags of hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFly is a wanderer and from the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness. We meet criminals, prostitutes, madmen, magicians, and clowns of many kinds. We meet ordinary people going to extraordinary places, and revolutionaries just trying to find something to eat. With all of the beauty, truth, rage, and peripatetic storytelling that have made his first two novels international publishing sensations, \u003ci\u003eCarnival \u003c\/i\u003egives us Rawi Hage at his searing best. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns outrageous, hilarious, sorrowful, and stirring, \u003ci\u003eCarnival\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force that will make all of life's passengers squirm in their comfortable, complacent backseats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Rawi Hage:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A large and unsettling talent'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Searing, affecting, misanthropic. I'm not from Lebanon and I don't live in Canada, but \u003ci\u003eCockroach\u003c\/i\u003e managed to take me to where I come from and where I live now more powerfully than anything I've read in a long while'  Mohsin Hamid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The best novel I read this year was Rawi Hage's \u003ci\u003eCockroach\u003c\/i\u003e. A dark book, narrated with verve and brilliance. It made me jump for joy'  Colm Toibin, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war during the 1970s and 1980s. He emigrated to Canada in 1992 and now lives in Montreal. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/i\u003e, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the best English-language book published anywhere in the world in a given year, and has either won or been shortlisted for seven other major awards and prizes. \u003ci\u003eCockroach\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hage, Rawi","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48842087727443,"sku":"XV80241145951","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hage-rawi-carnival-xv80241145951-56701783376211.jpg?v=1728051968","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/carnival-2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}