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Author:
Alameddine, Rabih.
Title:
The hakawati : a story / Rabih Alameddine.
Edition:
1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher:
Anchor Books,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
513 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Middle East--Fiction.
Storytellers--Fiction.
Summary:
In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories--of his arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he earned the name al-Kharrat, the fibster--are interwoven with classic tales of the Middle East, stunningly reimagined. 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.--From publisher description.
ISBN:
0307386279
9780307386274
OCLC:
(OCoLC)428090504
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

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