Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war during the 1970s and 1980s, and now lives in Montreal. He is the author of Cockroach, Carnival, and De Niro's Game, which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Hage's work has been translated into thirty languages.
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On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in Beirut's Christian enclave, we meet an eccentric young man named Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father meets a sudden and untimely death, Pavlov is approached by a colorful member of the myste... SEE MORE