De Niro's Game

An extraordinarily powerful story which transcends the media coverage of the Middle East, "De Niro's Game" is a breathtaking, timely and moving novel about two young men coming of age in war-torn Beirut. While Bassam becomes obsessed with leaving Beirut, George amasses power in the militia-ruled underworld, and lives a life of violence and crime for profit. Their friendship is tested and inevitably their paths collide, explosively and tragically. "Intensely cinematic, his prose style jumps between fast-paced action, where the language hits the page like the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, and liquid metaphors that languidly twist, turn and coil one after another." - Daily Star, Lebanon.

Author: 
Hage, Rawi
Title: 
De Niro's Game
Publisher: 
Old Street Publishing
Place of Publication: 
Lebanon/Canada
Date: 
2007
Subject Area: 
Fiction
Original Language: 
English
Translator: 
n/a
ISBN: 
190584722X
Description: 

An extraordinarily powerful story which transcends the media coverage of the Middle East, "De Niro's Game" is a breathtaking, timely and moving novel about two young men coming of age in war-torn Beirut. While Bassam becomes obsessed with leaving Beirut, George amasses power in the militia-ruled underworld, and lives a life of violence and crime for profit. Their friendship is tested and inevitably their paths collide, explosively and tragically. "Intensely cinematic, his prose style jumps between fast-paced action, where the language hits the page like the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, and liquid metaphors that languidly twist, turn and coil one after another." - Daily Star, Lebanon.

Number of copies: 
2Copies