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After his undertaker father’s death, Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society: an antireligious sect that arranges secret burial for outcasts who have been denied last rites because of their religion or sexuality. Agreeing to take up his father’s work for the society, Pavlov becomes the chronicler of his torn and fading community, bearing witness to both its enduring rituals and its inevitable decline . . .
Deftly combining comedy with tragedy, Beirut Hellfire Society is an explosive, subversive, beautiful, and timely novel that is at once propulsive, elegiac, outrageous, profane and transcendent; a profoundly moving meditation on what it means to live through war.
“For a novel that involves so much death and sadness, it is vibrant, very operatic and funny at times ... A very important book and a book very much about our times.” -- CBC Radio