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De Niro's Game

By Rawi Hage

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| Hardcover | 9781581952230

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De Niro’s Game plunges readers into the timely story of two young men caught in Lebanon’s civil war. Bassam and George, best friends in childhood, have grown to adulthood in war-torn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crimContinue

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De Niro's Game

by Rawi Hage There’s an adjective that has too long languished in the negative camp of book reviews. I’d like to reclaim it. Calling prose “flat” is usually one of the less hurtful ways of saying that a book has sunk into eye-glazing boredom. It impl ... (read full critics)

quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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Bassam and George are childhood friends in Beirut but when the city is ravaged by the war they slowly discover how difficult is to stay friends in the surrounding mayhem. Rawi Hage can surely write beautiful sentences - he has adpted the English language to the flowery of the Arabic imagery - but mo ... (continue)

Bassam and George are childhood friends in Beirut but when the city is ravaged by the war they slowly discover how difficult is to stay friends in the surrounding mayhem. Rawi Hage can surely write beautiful sentences - he has adpted the English language to the flowery of the Arabic imagery - but most of the time he is going nowhere, while the plot is really thin and the twist in the last chpater - when Bassam goes to Paris - is a poor choice; nonethelss he knows how to bring the characters to life and the descriptions are vivid and effective. Worth reading, undeserved hype.

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