Rawi Hage 
Carnival [EPUB ebook] 

There are two types of taxi drivers in the Carnival city the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the flies are wanderers they roam the streets, looking for the raised flags of hands.Fly is a wanderer. Raised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying-carpet man from the East, he was born to wander, to watch, and to know. From the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness. We meet criminals, prostitutes, madmen, magicians, and clowns of many kinds. We meet ordinary people going to extraordinary places, and revolutionaries just trying to find something to eat. Hunger and injustice claw at the city, and books provide the only true shelter. And when the Carnival starts, all limits dissolve, and a gunshot goes off…With all of the beauty, truth, rage, and peripatetic storytelling that have made Cockroach and De Niro’s Game international publishing sensations, Carnival gives us Rawi Hage at his searing best. Alternately laughing at absurdity and crying out at oppression, this is a book with the revolutionary power of Camus’ The Stranger and the storytelling prowess of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. By turns outrageous, hilarious, sorrowful, and stirring, Carnival is a tour de force that will make all of life’s passengers squirm in their comfortable, complacent backseats.