{"product_id":"beirut-hellfire-society-9780393358223","title":"Beirut Hellfire Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Truly a masterpiece.” —Lawrence Joseph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eBeirut Hellfire Society\u003c\/em\u003e] draws on Hage’s antic, many-voiced gifts to make a chronicle of war and unrelenting death into a provocative entertainment.\" -- John Williams - New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] 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.\" -- Neda Ulaby - NPR\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] hell of a story.… Pavlov is an irresistible lead: stony, well-read, tightly controlled, with a deep well of sadness. Call him Harry Bosch but in Lebanon.\" -- Nathan Deuel - Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Hallucinatory.… [A] faceted meditation on existentialism.\" -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBeirut Hellfire Society\u003c\/em\u003e crackles with the kinetic energy of a dancer.… The absurd volume of deaths is also tempered by [Rawi] Hage’s signature dark humor and stylistic playfulness.\" -- Toronto Star\u003cbr\u003e\"A wild, viscerally exciting and often bleakly funny novel of ideas. 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 \u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\u003e.\" -- Montreal Gazette\u003cbr\u003e\"Potent.… Hage’s novel is a brisk, surreal, and often comic plunge into surviving the absurd nihilism of war.\" -- Publishers Weekly","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525157429591,"sku":"9780393358223","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393358223.jpg?v=1731859448","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beirut-hellfire-society-9780393358223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}