• Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
• Shortlisted for the 2018 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
• Shortlisted for the 2018 Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
• Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize

“Beirut Hellfire Society, if it is even possible, raises Hage’s game to sublime new heights in a moving, ultimately devastating treatise on war, death, morality, and sanity. Populating this world with a variety of misfits, rogues, lovers, and maniacs, Hage, like all great writers, approaches his subject from a fresh perspective, presenting the consequences of war in a fashion often breathtaking in its boldness. This is literary warfare via the unflinching realism of Erich Maria Remarque, the paranoia of Franz Kafka, and the absurdity of Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Beirut Hellfire Society is...a stripping-back of the nature of story, and its episodic structure burns with its own fuel. The possibility of death lurks behind every utterance. Yet the novel as a whole is not one of bleakness but joy.” (2018 QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction jury citation)

“A novel of tragic beauty and dark humour that is comfortable with contradiction and charged with probing philosophical insights and the luminosity of Arabic poetry. It’s a timeless story of the outcast whose act of witness chronicles the world he observes. It is also a testament to love for life. Hage reminds us of what it takes for a novel to endure on the level of both form and content.” (Quill & Quire, starred review) 

“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)