De Niro's Game (P.S.) - Softcover

"Canadian author Rawi Hage's exhilarating debut novel captures a dreamlike, cacophonous Beirut during the Lebanese civil war...Hage's scattergun prose['s]... impact lingers long after the last bomb has landed."--The Observer (England)

"Hage brilliantly condenses these short, incendiary lives: while the setting is relatively contemporary, the conflict and language are centuries old."--The Guardian (London)

"Hage is a talented and versatile writer who will certainly raise the threshold of Anglophone Arab-Canadian fiction."--The International Fiction Review (online)

"Oustanding...this extraordinary novel of two young men surrounded by the violence and tragedy of the Lebanese Civil War hits you in the stomach. Do support it."--Bookseller (London)

"It is a viciously intense, poetically raw story, interspersed with moments of dark humor..."--BookBrowse.com

"Rawi Hage's debut novel burns with a white-hot brilliance..."--Charlotte Observer

..".a hallucinatory vision of how war corrupts even friendship. Written in English and calling upon Arabic poetry and French philosophy, De Niro's Game forms an intriguing trilingual hybrid that should cement its appeal worldwide."--Washington Post

..".the language, restless, enervated, slides from blunt and colorless to the candenced, figuring [the protagonist's] world's endless cycle of revolution and despair...Remarkable."--Los Angeles Times

..".vividly evocative of the chaos of conflict and the moral confusion of young men.--Daily Telegraph (London)

..".Hollywood noir meets opium dreams in a blasted landscape of war-wasted young lives."--Boston Globe

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 to seek safety in exile abroad, alienated from everything they know, in a debut novel about two young men caught up in Lebanon's civil war. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.