{"product_id":"rawi-hage-de-niros-game-2013-paperback","title":"Rawi Hage: De Niro's Game [2013] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCockroach\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBassam 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBassam 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 \u003cbr\u003ecollide, with explosive consequences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/i\u003e is Rawi Hage's devastating, timely portrait of two young men and an entire city formed and deformed by war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A large and unsettling talent'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece . . . writing cannot really get much better'  \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hollywood noir meets opium dreams in a blasted landscape of war-wasted young lives'  \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most subtly nuanced, psychologically compelling book about the corrosive effects of war to be written for a long time . . .The descriptions of the city are so skilful you can taste the dust in the air'  \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He is the author of  \u003ci\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; \u003ci\u003eCockroach,\u003c\/i\u003e which was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize and also listed for various other prizes; and \u003ci\u003eCarnival\u003c\/i\u003e, to be published by Hamish Hamilton\/ Penguin in April 2013. He lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hage, Rawi","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49361886380371,"sku":"9780241964910","price":22.84,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47417120883027,"sku":"XG80241964910","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hage-rawi-rawi-hage-de-niro-s-game-2013-paperback-58756604363091.jpg?v=1726757942","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/rawi-hage-de-niros-game-2013-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}