Stray Dogs

And Other Stories

De: Rawi Hage

Narrado por: Antoine Yared

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

From the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.

In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receives haunting news from the Persian Gulf. And in Berlin, a Lebanese writer forms a fragile, fateful bond with his voluble German neighbours.
The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states—nation-states and states of mind—seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing and often random ways our fragile modern identities are constructed, destroyed, and reborn. Politically astute, philosophically wise, humane, relevant and caustically funny, these stories reveal the singular vision of award-winning writer Rawi Hage at his best.

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PRAISE FOR RAWI HAGE

“[Hage’s writing] crackles with the kinetic energy of a dancer.” —Toronto Star

“[Beirut Hellfire Society is] elegantly beautiful . . . full of bleak humour and gem-like sentences.” —Maclean’s

“Narrated with verve and brilliance. [Cockroach] made me jump for joy.” —Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and The Magician

“The things that make Rawi Hage a major literary talent . . . include freshness, gut-wrenching lyricism, boldness, emotional restraint, intellectual depth, historical sense, political subversiveness and uncompromising compassion.” —The Globe and Mail

“[De Niro's Game is] a masterpiece. . . . Writing cannot really get much better.” —Literary Review of Canada