# De Niro's Game

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- Book: [De Niro's Game](https://www.bookquiver.com/rawi-hage/de-niros-game) ([De Niro's Game.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rawi-hage/de-niros-game.md))
- Authors: [Rawi Hage](https://www.bookquiver.com/rawi-hage)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-491-0
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2013-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian side of war-torn Beirut. Now on the verge of adulthood, they must choose their futures: to remain in the exhausted, corrupt city of their birth, or to go into exile abroad, cut off from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path - obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to fund his escape to the West. Meanwhile, George amasses power in the underworld of the city, embracing a life of military service, organised crime, killing, and drugs. But their two paths inevitably collide, with explosive consequences. De Niro's Game is a devastating, timely portrait of two young men and an entire city formed and deformed by war.