Roman distins cu PARAGRAPH HUGH McLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION si GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTRA%AL finalist la SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE, GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD, ROGER WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE, COMMONWEALTH PRIZE si selectat de GLOBE AND MAIL in topul celor mai bune zece carti ale anului 2008 Plasata in decorul comunitatii de imigranti din Montreal, actiunea romanului se desfasoara pe parcursul unei luni de iarna deosebit de aspre. Un hot autodeclarat, cu o tentativa de sinucidere...

Roman castigator al premiului International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008. Tradus in peste 30 de limbi Romanul a mai fost distins cu McAUSLAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE, PARAGRAPHE HUGH MacLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION, PRIX DES LIBRAIRES DU QUA%BECSi nominalizat la: SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE, GOVERNOR GENERALaE(TM)S LITERARY AWARD, ROGERS WRITERSaE(TM) TRUST FICTION PRIZE, COMMONWEALTH WRITERSaE(TM) PRIZE Romanul de debut al artistului canadian de origine libaneza Rawi Hage a intrat in forta in lumea...

The author has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But he brings with him secrets - of a family tragedy that he failed to prevent and a childhood overshadowed by war.