6/26/2023 0 Comments Rawi hage beirut hellfire society![]() ![]() ![]() Like his late father, Pavlov enables the final journey for outcast cadavers no one else will touch. ![]() What he’s undoubtedly accepted is that life’s only certainty is death.įor second-generation Beirut undertaker Pavlov, death is his inherited livelihood. “Although the characters in this novel are fictitious,” the final sentence of Hage’s ( Carnival, 2013) spectacular novel acknowledges, “this is a book of mourning for the many who witnessed senseless wars, and for those who perished in those wars.” For the Lebanon-born, Canadian-domiciled, International IMPAC Dublin Award winner Hage, real-life experiences surely drive his fiction, for he witnessed nine of the 15-plus years of the Lebanese Civil War. ![]()
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