Author | Rawi Hage |
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Country | Canada/Lebanon |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | House of Anansi Press |
Publication date | 1 May 2006 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 288 pp |
ISBN | 978-1-58195-223-0 |
Followed by | Cockroach |
Feb 23, 2016 De Niro's Game Rawi Hage on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. Language: English Publisher. Hamish Hamilton De Niros Game 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 Cockroach Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the.
De Niro's Game is the debut novel by Lebanese-Canadian writer Rawi Hage, originally published in 2006.
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The novel's primary characters are Bassam and George, lifelong friends living in wartorn Beirut. The novel traces the different paths that the two follow as they face the difficult choice of whether to stay in Beirut and get involved in organized crime, or to leave Lebanon and build a new life in another country.
Awards[edit]
The novel won the 2008 International Dublin Literary Award[1] and was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2006 Governor General's Award for English fiction. Hage was also awarded two Quebec awards, the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize at the Quebec Writers' Federation literary awards.[2]
The novel's French language translation, Parfum de poussière, was translated by Sophie Voillot and won the 2009 edition of Le Combat des livres.
References[edit]
- ^Wagner, Vit (2008-06-12). 'Montreal writer wins big Irish prize'. Toronto Star. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^'Montreal's Hage wins 2 Quebec literary awards'. CBCnews.ca. CBC. 2006-11-23. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
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Preceded by Out Stealing Horses | International Dublin Literary Award recipient 2008 | Succeeded by Man Gone Down |
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