· de niro’s game by Rawi Hage ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 7, War-wracked Beirut in the days just before the Israeli invasion is the setting for this bitter novel, the author’s debut, about the death of friendship and the death of a small www.doorway.ru: Rawi Hage. "De Niro's game" is a fantastic read. Rawi Hage has a real talent and the account he presents of life in war torn Beirut during the height of the Lebanese civil war, is convincing, compelling and very scary. Hage's central character is a young man desparate to make something of his life away from the fighting, suffering and www.doorway.ru by: · Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game is a rare creature, a first novel that hits it out of the park. Few first novels are so assured or effective. The novel is set in Beirut, just before and during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in George and Bassam are two petty street thugs eking out a living in Christian East Beirut by any means they can/5.
Rawi Hage schildert das Schicksal zweier Freunde, die mitten im Krieg in Beirut aufwachsen, ihre Eltern verloren haben und sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs und als Kleinkriminelle durchschlagen. In einem Krieg, in dem sich Soldaten nicht von Gangstern unterscheiden, versuchen Bassam und George, genannt De Niro, ihren Teil vom Kuchen abzubekommen. De Niro's Game "De Niro's Game" by Rawi Hage is a coming of age story about a boy named Bassam from war torn Lebanon. The main settings are the headings of the three parts of the novel; Roma, Beirut and Paris. The settings help to illustrate character development, the novel's themes and are important symbols throughout. 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 crime, or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known.
De Niro’s Game “De Niro’s Game” by Rawi Hage is a coming of age story about a boy named Bassam from war torn Lebanon. The main settings are the headings of the three parts of the novel; Roma, Beirut and Paris. The settings help to illustrate character development, the novel’s themes and are important symbols throughout. de niro’s game by Rawi Hage ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 7, War-wracked Beirut in the days just before the Israeli invasion is the setting for this bitter novel, the author’s debut, about the death of friendship and the death of a small nation. Hage’s style suits his surroundings: blunt, quick sentences, marked by occasional poetic flourishes. It isn’t a surprise when Hage’s narrator, a young, aimless man named Bassam, starts reading a copy of The Stranger. Hage has not quite recreated Camus’s bleak classic with De Niro’s Game, but he is upholding its fine tradition. There are echoes of Camus throughout, right down to Bassam’s inability to conjure up any emotion at his mother’s funeral.
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