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By Hage, Rawi2018., Knopf Canada Call No: QWF Fic Hag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon, partway through that country's Civil War. On a torn-up street overlooking a cemetery in the city's Christian enclave, we meet an eccentric young man named Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father meets a sudden and untimely death, Pavlov is approached by a colourful member of the mysterious Hellfire Society--a secret group to which his father had belonged. The Society's purpose is to arrange burial or cremation for those who for various reasons have been outcast and abandoned by family, clergy and state. Pavlov agrees to take up his father's work for the society, and over the course of the novel he becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and fading community, bearing witness to its enduring rituals as well as its inevitable decline. Deftly combining comedy with tragedy, Beirut Hellfire Society is at once propulsive, elegiac, outrageous, profane and transcendent--a profoundly moving meditation on what it means to live through war. It asks what, if anything, can be accomplished or preserved in the face of certain change and imminent death. Here is an exhilarating, subversive, beautiful and timely new work that reinforces Rawi Hage's status as one of our most original, necessary, fearless and important writers.
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By Hage, Rawic2012., General, Anansi Call No: QWF Fic Hag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: There are two types of taxi drivers 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. Fly is a wanderer. From the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness.
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By Hage, Rawic2012., General, Anansi Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: There are two types of taxi drivers 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. Fly is a wanderer. From the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness.
![Carnival [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74737.JPG "Carnival [eBook]")
![Cockroach [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT73797.JPG "Cockroach [eBook]")
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By Hage, Rawi2011., Adult, House of Anansi Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Growing up in war-torn Beirut, Bassam and George, best friends since childhood, each confront a choice between staying in the city and consolidating power through crime, or seeking safety in exile abroad, alienated from everything they know.
![De Niro's game [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT77298.JPG "De Niro's game [eBook]")
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By Hage, Rawi2022., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: QWF Fic Hag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Montreal, a photographer's unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receives haunting news from the Persian Gulf. And in Berlin, a Lebanese writer forms a fragile, fateful bond with his voluble German neighbours. The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states--nation-states and states of mind--seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing and often random ways our fragile modern identities are constructed, destroyed, and reborn.
