Rawi Hage (5 kníh)
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Rawi Hage Carnival EN
In Carnival, IMPAC award-winning Rawi Hage explores the hidden underbelly of a city. There are two types of taxi driver in the Carnival city - the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the flies wander the streets, looking for the raised flags of hands. Fly is a wanderer. From the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its carnivalesque beauty…
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Rawi Hage Cockroach EN
Our unnamed narrator has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But he brings with him secrets - of a family tragedy that he failed to prevent and a childhood overshadowed by war. And as he wanders snowy streets, falling in love with fellow exile Shoreh, he realizes that to find a place…
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Rawi Hage De Niro's Game EN
De Niro's Game 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 Cockroach. 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…
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Rawi Hage De Nirova hra CZ
Válkou zmítaný Libanon, kde zbraně jsou dostupnější než pitná voda a padající bomby dělají každý den ještě pochmurnější než ten předešlý, na počátku 80. let… Bassam a George jsou dva nespoutaní mladí muži, jejichž dětské hry v ruinách zničeného Bejrútu nabraly nebezpečný kurz. Dny tráví projížděním nuzných ulic v křesťanských částech města a vymýšlejí plány, jak přijít k penězům. Bassam je potřebuje k tomu, aby se…
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