{"product_id":"de-niros-game","title":"De Niro's Game","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCockroach\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBassam 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBassam 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. But their two paths inevitably \u003cbr\u003ecollide, with explosive consequences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/i\u003e is Rawi Hage's devastating, timely portrait of two young men and an entire city formed and deformed by war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A large and unsettling talent'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece . . . writing cannot really get much better'  \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hollywood noir meets opium dreams in a blasted landscape of war-wasted young lives'  \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most subtly nuanced, psychologically compelling book about the corrosive effects of war to be written for a long time . . .The descriptions of the city are so skilful you can taste the dust in the air'  \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He is the author of  \u003ci\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; \u003ci\u003eCockroach,\u003c\/i\u003e which was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize and also listed for various other prizes; and \u003ci\u003eCarnival\u003c\/i\u003e, to be published by Hamish Hamilton\/ Penguin in April 2013. He lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226942493016,"sku":"9780241964910","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241964910_7dbb3a60-f4b2-4b24-90f3-c06637e9b8e5.jpg?v=1764819034","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/de-niros-game","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}