In Beirut Hellfire Society, Rawi Hage creates a dance that is savage, devastating, tender, mournful, and darkly, wickedly humorous. The novel is loosely a modern-day version of Antigone, set during one year of the Lebanese civil war/5(35). · Beirut Hellfire Society (W. W. Norton Company) by Rawi Hage is intense, visceral, and deeply emotional. Often, it is even hilarious. Often, it is even hilarious. In a country where bombs are constantly falling, the people of Beirut are compelled to extremes in order to survive or cope with (This review can also be found at www.doorway.ru)/5. · Beirut Hellfire Society (W. W. Norton Company) by Rawi Hage is intense, visceral, and deeply emotional. Often, it is even hilarious. Often, it is even hilarious. In a country where bombs are constantly falling, the people of Beirut are compelled to extremes in order to survive or cope with (This review can also be found at www.doorway.ru)/5.
Rawi Hage's new novel, "Beirut Hellfire Society," follows the son of an undertaker, rendered an only child by war, and how he endures the ugly clans in Lebanon. Beirut Hellfire Society is worth picking up because it provides the reader with a clear tale of endurance and the predictable decline of a war torn society but the lack of cohesion let me down. Critics have praised Rawi Hage for his "fierce poetic originality" and "uncompromising vision.". "This is a book of mourning for the many who witnessed senseless wars, and for those who per ished in those wars." So writes Rawi Hage in the acknowledgements to his fourth novel. Death is front and centre in Beirut Hellfire Society, but in Hage's rendering it is as sensual as it is senseless; this new work of fiction extends the streak of ab surdity that runs through the author's.
An undertaker manages his grimly booming business in Beirut in Hage’s fourth novel (Carnival, , etc.) concerns Pavlov, the son of the longtime operator of the Beirut Hellfire Society, which surreptitiously moves the bodies of those killed by sectarian violence, regardless of religious or political affiliation, to a remote crematorium. Rawi Hage is the author of four novels. Beirut Hellfire Society was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Hage now lives in Montreal. Beirut Hellfire Society (W. W. Norton Company) by Rawi Hage is intense, visceral, and deeply emotional. Often, it is even hilarious. Often, it is even hilarious. In a country where bombs are constantly falling, the people of Beirut are compelled to extremes in order to survive or cope with (This review can also be found at www.doorway.ru).
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