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An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a "hakawati," or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the ancient, fabled Fatima; and Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders. Here, too, are contemporary Lebanese whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war-and of survival. Rabih Alameddine has given us an "Arabian Nights" for this century--a funny, captivating novel that enchants and dazzles.

Book details

• Full title: The Hakawati
• Author: Rabih Alameddine
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 513
• EAN: 9780307386274
• ISBN: 0307386279
• ID: 10977196
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Weight: 362 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 133 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. June 2009

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