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Obviously, nobody in real life would react to a violent vagrant by claiming that they're a mystical saviour from the depths of their subconscious.

Two shortlisted Lebanese novels, Druze of Belgrade by Rabee Jaber, and The Vagrant, by Jabbour Douaihy, offer fresh portrayals of sectarianism in Lebanon – one historic and the other more recent.

He meets Geordie, now a homeless, drunken vagrant, by chance in London, but his old friend disappears before he has a chance to help him.

Page 37 BOOK REVIEW "The Vagrants," by Yiyun Li, takes place in Mao Zedong's China.

His mother Annie opened a boarding hotel for migrant workers — roughnecks, political agitators and vagrants, by whom the young boy was captivated.

Or, perversely, are they intended to abrade contemporary sensibilities in the same way that classical music is used at the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Pennsylvania Station, to repel vagrants by driving them to distraction?

The Vagrants, by Yiyun Li (Fourth Estate, £12.99) Yiyun Li's first novel, based on true events, lays bare the lives of ordinary people in Maoist China, as a young woman's execution for her loss of faith in communism sparks off a doomed protest in her provincial town.

During their shift at a soup kitchen, a crazed vagrant played by Djimon Hounsou starts smashing the place up with a baseball bat.

Not to mention the annoying vagrant played by John C. Reilly, who speaks in falsetto throughout the film.

Arlene Phillips's Dance Me to the End of Love switchbacks us to the end of the story and sees Watson alone, haunted by his memories of a vanished partner, and possessed by vagrant fragments of choreography.

** The Vagrants,** by Yiyun Li (Random House; $25).