Rawi Hage: Beirut Hellfire Society, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Rawi Hage

Beirut Hellfire Society

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Publisher:: W. W. Norton & Company, 07/2020
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780393358223
Item number:: 12127064
Weight:: 251 g
Format:: 210 x 141 mm
Thickness:: 20 mm
Release date:: 14.7.2020
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

Blurb

On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in a Christian enclave in war-torn 1970s Beirut, we meet Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father dies suddenly, Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society-an anti-religious sect that arranges secret burial for outcasts denied last rites because of their religion or sexuality. Pavlov agrees to take on his father's work for the society, and over the course of the novel he becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and faded community at the heart of Lebanon's civil war.

Biography

Rawi Hage, geb. 1964, aufgewachsen in Beirut und auf Zypern, erlebte den libanesischen Bürgerkrieg am eigenen Leib. 1982 ging er nach New York, wo er Fotografie studierte. Seit 1991 lebt er als freischaffender Künstler und Autor in Montreal.