Childhood best friends Bassam and George have grown to be men in war-ravaged Beirut. Now they must choose between the only two futures available to them: to stay in the devastated city and consolidate power through crime or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have ever kn[...]

"Carnival" is a new novel from Impac Literary Award winner Rawi Hage. Winner of the Paragraphe Hugh Maclennan prize for fiction. There are two types of taxi driver in the Carnival city - the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the[...]

De Niros spill følger de to barndomsvennene Bassam og George som vokser opp i borgerkrigens Beirut. De to ungdommene ser bare to mulige veier å gå: bli i Beirut og skaffe seg raske penger gjennom kriminalitet, eller forlate den eneste virkeligheten de kjenner - og dra i eksil.

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