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Title Statement | Stray dogs: stories / Rawi Hage. |
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Author | Hage, Rawi |
Publication | ©2022Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada,[2022] |
Extent of Item | 201 pages |
ISBN | 9780735273627 0735273626 |
Other Number | 4290536 |
Contents | The iconoclast -- Bird nation -- Stray dogs -- Mother, mother, mother -- The whistle --The fate of the son of the man on the horse -- Instructions for the dance -- The veil -- The Duplicates -- The Wave -- The colour of trees. |
Summary | In Montreal, a photographers 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 statesnation-states and states of mindseeking 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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Geologists--Fiction |
Tsunamis--Fiction | |
Mothers and daughters--Fiction | |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
By Location | Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction |
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction | |
Beirut (Lebanon)--Fiction | |
Montréal (Québec)--Fiction |