How Long to Read Beirut Hellfire Society

How Long Does it Take to Read Beirut Hellfire Society?

It takes the average reader to read Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage

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LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE An explosive new novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of De Niro's Game and Cockroach, and only the second Canadian (after Alistair Macleod) to win the prestigious Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. It is 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon, partway through that country's Civil War. On a torn-up street overlooking a cemetery in the city's Christian enclave, we meet an eccentric young man named Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father meets a sudden and untimely death, Pavlov is approached by a colourful member of the mysterious Hellfire Society--a secret group to which his father had belonged. The Society's purpose is to arrange burial or cremation for those who for various reasons have been outcast and abandoned by family, clergy and state. Pavlov agrees to take up his father's work for the society, and over the course of the novel he becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and fading community, bearing witness to its enduring rituals as well as its inevitable decline. Deftly combining comedy with tragedy, Beirut Hellfire Society is at once propulsive, elegiac, outrageous, profane and transcendent--a profoundly moving meditation on what it means to live through war. It asks what, if anything, can be accomplished or preserved in the face of certain change and imminent death. Here is an exhilarating, subversive, beautiful and timely new work that reinforces Rawi Hage's status as one of our most original, necessary, fearless and important writers.

How long is Beirut Hellfire Society?

Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read Beirut Hellfire Society Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Beirut Hellfire Society aloud.

What Reading Level is Beirut Hellfire Society?

Beirut Hellfire Society is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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