Beirut Hellfire Society: A Novel

Beirut Hellfire Society: A Novel
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781324002925
ISBN-13 : 1324002921
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Download or read book Beirut Hellfire Society: A Novel written by Rawi Hage and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Truly a masterpiece.” —Lawrence Joseph On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in a Christian enclave in war-torn 1970s Beirut, we meet Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father dies suddenly, Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society—an anti-religious sect that arranges secret burial for outcasts denied last rites because of their religion or sexuality. Pavlov agrees to take on his father’s work for the society, and over the course of the novel he becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and faded community at the heart of Lebanon’s civil war.


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