Winner of the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
De Niro's Game chronicles the madness of the Beirut civil war with dark humour and beautifully manicured urgency... Creates images that explode in the reader's imagination like ten thousand bombs" (Atom Egoyan)
Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and amass power by joining the corrupt militia; or to become exiles abroad, alienated from the only existence they have ever known. Bassam chooses one path: obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to finance his departure. Meanwhile, George builds his status in the militia-ruled underworld of the city, and embraces a life of killing, crime for profit, and drugs. Eventually and inevitably, the fates of the two friends collide.
Told in the voice of Bassam, De Niro's Game is a beautiful, explosive portrait of contemporary young men shaped by a lifelong experience of war. Rawi Hage brilliantly fuses vivid, jump-cut cinematic action with the measured strength and beauty of Arabic poetry. His style mimics a world gone mad: so smooth and apparently sane that its sudden, razor-sharp dips into chaos and violence surprise and cut deeply.
Here is an astonishing, brilliantly paced look at life and death in a war zone, and what comes after.
Rawi Hage
Cockroach
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
During a bitterly cold winter in a snowy northern city, a self-confessed thief has just tried to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the local park. Rescued against his will and obliged to attend sessions wi... Buy or find out more →
De Niro's Game
$8.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Winner of the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
De Niro's Game chronicles the madness of the Beirut civil war with dark humour and beautifully manicured urgency... Creates images that explode in the reader'... Buy or find out more →
2008 Literary Award Winners
The Time We Have Taken
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken‚ our moment.
One summer morning in 1970‚ Peter van Rijn‚ proprietor of the television and wireless shop‚ pronounces... Buy or find out more →
The Zookeeper's War
$22.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Prize for Fiction.
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A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ...
It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin ... Buy or find out more →
De Niro's Game
$8.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Winner of the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
De Niro's Game chronicles the madness of the Beirut civil war with dark humour and beautifully manicured urgency... Creates images that explode in the reader'... Buy or find out more →
The Road Home
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Winner of the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Ficiton.
Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter.
Readers will become totally in... Buy or find out more →
Someone Knows My Name
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The abolitionists say they have brought me to England to help them change the course of history. Well. We shall see about that. But if I have lived this long, it must be for... Buy or find out more →
Tree Of Smoke
$22.99 – Paperback book / Picador
Winner of the 2007 National Book Award.
Tree of Smoke the name given to a "psy op" that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned is Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary and a... Buy or find out more →
