{"product_id":"carnival-a-novel","title":"Carnival: A Novel","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCarnival: A Novel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRawi Hage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393072426\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCarnival\u003c\/em\u003e, internationally acclaimed author Rawi Hage takes us into the world of Fly, a taxi driver in a crime-ridden apocalyptic metropolis. \u003cp\u003eRaised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying-carpet man, Fly sees everything, taking in all of the city's carnivalesque beauty and ugliness as he roves through its dizzying streets in his taxi. Fly is a reader, too, and when he's not in his taxi he is at home in the equally dizzying labyrinth of books that fills his tiny apartment. His best friend is Otto, a political activist who's in and out of jails and asylums, mourning his dead wife and lost foster son. On one otherwise tawdry night Fly meets Mary, a book-loving passenger with a domineering husband. So begins a romance that is, for Fly, a brief glimmer of light amid the shadows and grit of the Carnival city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with Otto and Mary, Fly introduces us to madmen and revolutionaries, magicians and prostitutes as he picks them up and drops them off, traveling through a nightmarish town that is--we can't help but notice--a parable for our own debauched, unjust world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWildly imaginative and darkly ironic, \u003cem\u003eCarnival\u003c\/em\u003e is a magnificent achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Carnival: A Novel | Rawi Hage | Hardcover | 9780393072426 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1689741","offer_id":48753946558616,"sku":"1689741","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51yFn1blnsL.jpg?v=1774070074","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/carnival-a-novel","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}