Beirut Hellfire Society

In Beirut Hellfire Society, award- winning author Rawi Hage-- praised for his "fierce poetic originality" (Boston Globe) and "uncompromising vision" (Colm T ib n)-- asks: What, after all, can be preserved in the face of certain change and imminent death? The answer is at once propulsive, elegiac, outrageous, profane, and transcendent-- and a profoundly moving meditation on what it means to live through war.