Beirut Hellfire Society
#7941 of 8,085 books · #1048 in Historical Fiction
Longlisted for the Giller Prize (2018).
On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in a Christian enclave in war-torn 1970s Beirut, we meet Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father dies suddenly, Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society—an anti-religious sect that arranges secret burial for outcasts denied last rites because of their religion or sexuality. Pavlov agrees to take on his father's work for the society, and over the course of the novel he becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and faded community at the heart of Lebanon's civil war.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-13
- 9781324002925
- Topics
- Lebanese Civil WarDeath and burial ritesReligious persecution and outcasts
Awards
- Giller PrizeLonglisted(2018)
Other awarded books from Rawi Hage
- De Niro's Game ‡ (2009)1 win · 15 score
- Cockroach (2008)0 wins · 3 score
- Stray Dogs0 wins · 3 score
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