Carnival |
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Author:
| Hage, Rawi |
ISBN: | 978-0-241-14603-3 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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...
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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.
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, Carnivalgives us Rawi Hage at his searing best.
By turns outrageous, hilarious, sorrowful, and stirring, Carnivalis a tour de force that will make all of life's passengers squirm in their comfortable, complacent backseats.
'Quite simply, a brilliant writer. Carnivalconfirms Hage's status as a star in the literary firmament.' The Star
'Hage's most exuberant, imaginative and playful novel yet.' Telegraph Journal