De Niro's Game

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<b><i>De Niro's Game</i> 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 <i>Cockroach</i>.</b> 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. But their two paths inevitably collide, with explosive consequences. <i>De Niro's Game</i> is Rawi Hage's devastating, timely portrait of two young men and an entire city formed and deformed by war. 'A large and unsettling talent' <i>Guardian</i> 'A masterpiece . . . writing cannot really get much better' <i>Literary Review</i> 'Hollywood noir meets opium dreams in a blasted landscape of war-wasted young lives' <i>Boston Globe</i> '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' <i>Financial Times</i> Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He is the author of <i>De Niro's Game</i>, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; <i>Cockroach,</i> which was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize and also listed for various other prizes; and <i>Carnival</i>, to be published by Hamish Hamilton/ Penguin in April 2013. He lives in Montreal.