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Fly is a taxi driver in a crime-ridden, apocalyptic metropolis where the streets echo with carnivalesque beauty and ugliness. Raised in the circus, he sees the city’s chaotic duality as he roves through its dizzying streets. Fly is also a reader, his tiny apartment brimming with books, and his late friendship with Otto, a political activist perpetually in and out of jails and asylums, anchors him.
One night, Fly meets Mary, a book-loving passenger with a domineering husband, and a romance begins that offers Fly a fleeting glimmer of light amid the city’s shadows. Along with Otto and Mary, Fly encounters madmen, revolutionaries, magicians, and prostitutes, transporting them through the nightmarish town and, in the process, providing a parabolic reflection on a world of debauchery and injustice.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Rawi Hage
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