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De Niro's Game ‡

Rawi Hage

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#323 of 8,085 books · #79 in Crime & Thriller

Won the International Dublin Literary Award (2008). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Bassam 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. Bassam 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. Their two paths inevitably collide, with explosive consequences. De Niro's Game is a devastating, timely portrait of two young men and an entire city formed and deformed by war.

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Publisher
House of Anansi Press
ISBN-13
9781407434261
Topics
War and its aftermathFriendshipComing of ageOrganized crimeExile and displacement

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