![]() ![]() As their light forever burns its time for the dead to dance. Lots of fire and the joyful release of the howl as modeled by Rex. In the end there is music, dance and fire. Where his father leaves off a talking dog named Rex, and a war traumatised, our lady of the stairs, picks up to offer friendship and lessons in love. Spiked with occasionally humorous conversations, mysterious texts in Syriac, Arabic and Latin, and a narrator like no other. He wields words like a weapon blasting into the banality of unambiguous morality during war time. Hage offers a sardonic view of petty rulers, organized religion, government, and war. They believe fire is a passage and a dance. ![]() A father tenderly guides his son, Pavlov, through the ceremonies of cremation for all those the state denies a burial in consecrated ground and those preferring a fire funeral. A book about the randomness of whistling bombs, destruction and death in 1978 Beirut. ![]()
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