De Niro Game - Rawi Hage

Section: Translated novels

Number of pages: 351 pages

Publisher: Al Matbouat Company for Distribution and Publishing

The Lebanese war crushed even the human spirit in the youth. A period of Lebanese history that if we read a number of books about it, we would not understand it as it came in this novel due to the simplicity of the presentation. How much I sympathized with the character of Jalal because of the loss of his identity between a spy and a secretary. The legitimate girl did not escape the same identity crisis that her brother suffered from, although her reaction was different.