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De Niro's Game Author(s) Rawi Hage Country Canada/Lebanon Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Old Street Publication date 1 May 2006 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 288 pp ISBN 978-1581952230 Followed by Cockroach De Niro's Game is the debut novel by Lebanese-Canadian writer Rawi Hage, originally published in 2006.
The novel's primary characters are Bassam and George, lifelong friends living in wartorn Beirut. The novel traces the different paths that the two follow as they face the difficult choice of whether to stay in Beirut and get involved in organized crime, or to leave Lebanon and build a new life in another country. Ultimately, Bassam leaves Beirut behind, and George in the process, who kills himself.
Awards
The novel won the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award[1] and was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2006 Governor General's Award for English fiction. Hage was also awarded two Quebec awards, the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize at the Quebec Writers' Federation literary awards.[2]
The novel's French language translation, Parfum de poussière, was translated by Sophie Voillot and won the 2009 edition of Le Combat des livres.
References
- ^ Wagner, Vit (2008-06-12). "Montreal writer wins big Irish prize". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/441989. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^ "Montreal's Hage wins 2 Quebec literary awards". CBCnews.ca. CBC. 2006-11-23. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2006/11/23/hage-qwf.html. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1996–1999 Remembering Babylon (1996) · A Heart So White (1997) · The Land of Green Plums (1998) · Ingenious Pain (1999)
2000–2009 Wide Open (2000) · No Great Mischief (2001) · The Elementary Particles (2002) · My Name Is Red (2003) · This Blinding Absence of Light (2004) · The Known World (2005) · The Master (2006) · Out Stealing Horses (2007) · De Niro's Game (2008) · Man Gone Down (2009)
2010–present The Twin (2010) · Let the Great World Spin (2011)
Categories:- 2006 novels
- Novels by Rawi Hage
- Novels set in Lebanon
- Debut novels
- 2000s novel stubs
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