Beirut hellfire society by rawi hage5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() As hage writes: this is my first novel in the third person. Pavlov accepts this assignment, and over the course of the novel acts as a survivor-chronicler of his torn and fading community, bearing witness to both its enduring rituals and its inevitable decline. The society that arranges such burials is a hidden anti-religious sect called the beirut hellfire society. Tarraff, and tasked with providing bu rials that, for a variety of reasons-because the deceased is homosexual, or an outcast, or abandoned by their family, or an atheist-must happen in secret. When his father dies, pavlov is summoned by his former teacher, mr. Our protagonist, pavlov, is the twenty-something son of an undertaker and as such has watched funeral processions pass below his window throughout his childhood. Now, with the beirut hellfire society, hage makes a stunning and mature return to war torn beirut of the 1970s, during the civil war. ![]() Since publishing de niro's game more than a decade ago, hage has followed up with two award-winning and acclaimed novels set in montreal's immigrant community: cockroach (shortlisted for the giller prize), and carnival (shortlisted for the gg and writers' trust fiction prizes). The beirut hellfire society is a short and brilliant return to the world rawi hage first imagined in his extraordinary, award-winning first novel de niro's game, winner of the dublin impac award, an international bestseller, finalist for the giller, gg, and writers' trust, and widely considered a canadian classic. ![]()
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