num_pages: 216
description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niros Game  Cockroach  Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society  here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.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.
language: English
title: Stray Dogs: Stories
publisher: Knopf Canada