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2960322Carnivalhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/carnival-9780241964897/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3234745/a3fa182c-ac98-4573-b8ad-6362ff043b40.jpg?v=638865672423300000204231MXNPenguin Books LtdInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong><em>Carnival</em> is a new novel from IMPAC Literary Award winner Rawi Hage.</strong></p><p><strong>WINNER OF THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION</strong></p><p>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 are wanderers - they roam the streets, looking for the raised flags of hands.</p><p>Fly is a wanderer and from the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness. We meet criminals, prostitutes, madmen, magicians, and clowns of many kinds. We meet ordinary people going to extraordinary places, and revolutionaries just trying to find something to eat. With all of the beauty, truth, rage, and peripatetic storytelling that have made his first two novels international publishing sensations, <em>Carnival</em> gives us Rawi Hage at his searing best.</p><p>By turns outrageous, hilarious, sorrowful, and stirring, <em>Carnival</em> is a tour de force that will make all of lifes passengers squirm in their comfortable, complacent backseats.</p><p>Praise for Rawi Hage:</p><p>A large and unsettling talent <em>Guardian</em></p><p>Searing, affecting, misanthropic. Im not from Lebanon and I dont live in Canada, but <em>Cockroach</em> managed to take me to where I come from and where I live now more powerfully than anything Ive read in a long while Mohsin Hamid</p><p>The best novel I read this year was Rawi Hages <em>Cockroach</em>. A dark book, narrated with verve and brilliance. It made me jump for joy Colm Tóibín, <em>Guardian</em></p><p>Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war during the 1970s and 1980s. He emigrated to Canada in 1992 and now lives in Montreal. His first novel, <em>De Niros Game</em>, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the best English-language book published anywhere in the world in a given year, and has either won or been shortlisted for seven other major awards and prizes. <em>Cockroach</em> was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the Governor Generals Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.</p>...2896217Carnival204231https://www.gandhi.com.mx/carnival-9780241964897/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3234745/a3fa182c-ac98-4573-b8ad-6362ff043b40.jpg?v=638865672423300000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20139780241964897_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_<p><strong><em>Carnival</em> is a new novel from IMPAC Literary Award winner Rawi Hage.</strong></p><p><strong>WINNER OF THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION</strong></p><p>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 are wanderers - they roam the streets, looking for the raised flags of hands.</p><p>Fly is a wanderer and from the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness. We meet criminals, prostitutes, madmen, magicians, and clowns of many kinds. We meet ordinary people going to extraordinary places, and revolutionaries just trying to find something to eat. With all of the beauty, truth, rage, and peripatetic storytelling that have made his first two novels international publishing sensations, <em>Carnival</em> gives us Rawi Hage at his searing best.</p><p>By turns outrageous, hilarious, sorrowful, and stirring, <em>Carnival</em> is a tour de force that will make all of lifes passengers squirm in their comfortable, complacent backseats.</p><p>Praise for Rawi Hage:</p><p>A large and unsettling talent <em>Guardian</em></p><p>Searing, affecting, misanthropic. Im not from Lebanon and I dont live in Canada, but <em>Cockroach</em> managed to take me to where I come from and where I live now more powerfully than anything Ive read in a long while Mohsin Hamid</p><p>The best novel I read this year was Rawi Hages <em>Cockroach</em>. A dark book, narrated with verve and brilliance. It made me jump for joy Colm Tóibín, <em>Guardian</em></p><p>Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war during the 1970s and 1980s. He emigrated to Canada in 1992 and now lives in Montreal. His first novel, <em>De Niros Game</em>, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the best English-language book published anywhere in the world in a given year, and has either won or been shortlisted for seven other major awards and prizes. <em>Cockroach</em> was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the Governor Generals Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.</p>...9780241964897_Penguin Books Ltdlibro_electonico_191c03b8-105c-3b93-a300-2fac15c5d9df_9780241964897;9780241964897_9780241964897Rawi HageInglésMéxico2013-08-01T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Books Ltd