![]() Potent.… Hage’s novel is a brisk, surreal, and often comic plunge into surviving the absurd nihilism of war. If anything, surrender will liberate you from the burden of yourself. ![]() ![]() Comparisons aren’t always useful, but this reviewer thought of a work… equally unflinching in its de-romanticizing of a subject most of us prefer to avoid: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage 1,254 ratings, 3.48 average rating, 192 reviews Open Preview Beirut Hellfire Society Quotes Showing 1-14 of 14 But Nadja sensed his intention and said, It was just a game. Hallucinatory.… faceted meditation on existentialism.īeirut Hellfire Society crackles with the kinetic energy of a dancer.… The absurd volume of deaths is also tempered by Hage’s signature dark humor and stylistic playfulness.Ī wild, viscerally exciting and often bleakly funny novel of ideas. hell of a story.… Pavlov is an irresistible lead: stony, well-read, tightly controlled, with a deep well of sadness. playfully scabrous novel that draws nearly as much from Nabokov as from Lebanon’s grisly civil war.… The writing is bravura, the humor, stygian and the thrill of expression, triumphant. Beirut Hellfire Society: A Novel Audio CD Unabridged, Jby Rawi Hage (Author), Neil Shah (Narrator) 50 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 8.92 37 Used from 2.05 22 New from 8.92 3 Collectible from 5. ![]() ![]() Draws on Hage’s antic, many-voiced gifts to make a chronicle of war and unrelenting death into a provocative entertainment. ![]()
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