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Carnival

Rawi Hage

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English
Penguin
15 July 2014
IMPAC award-winning Rawi Hage explores the hidden underbelly of a colourful city in a novel of dark comedy and deep compassion

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 flies wander the streets, looking for the raised flags of hands.

Fly is a wanderer. From the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness. We meet criminals, prostitutes, madmen, revolutionaries, ordinary people going to extraordinary places. With all of the beauty, truth, rage, and peripatetic storytelling that have made his first two novels international sensations, Carnival is a tour de force that will make all of life's passengers squirm in their backseats.

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   283g
ISBN:   9780241964903
ISBN 10:   0241964903
Pages:   304
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Carnival

Dark and compelling, a restlessly energetic and kaleidoscopic work Financial Times A rich and often beautiful, brave, engrossing, intelligent, literate, funny and very human novel. I enjoyed this book in so many ways. I relished this novel - for its compassion, its lyricism and its great human spirit Guardian Exuberant, sublime, startling, surreal and breathtaking Sunday Times Quite simply, a brilliant writer ... Funny, angry, perceptive and poignant, Carnival confirms Hage's status as a star in the literary firmament Toronto Star Every form of laughter this side of uproarious guffawing - the smile, the chuckle, the suppressed giggle, the nudge nudge, wink wink - comes into play in Rawi Hage's Carnival. A display of literary derring-do ... both his funniest and his most serious book Globe and Mail


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