Book The Hakawati – Rabih Alameddine
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Book The Hakawati – Rabih Alameddine
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LebanonPostcard presents The Hakawati – Rabih Alameddine
Hardcover book with jacket, 24×17 cm, 520 pages – ISBN 9780307266798 (Used book but still like new)
“Here is absolute beauty. One of the finest novels I’ve read in years.”
JUNOT DÍAZ
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. 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 story-teller, 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.
Like a true hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century-a funny, captivating novel that enchants and dazzles from its very first lines: “Listen. Let me take you on a journey beyond imagining. Let me tell
you a story.”
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE HAKAWATI
“Both genius and genie out of the ink bottle, a glorious, gorgeous masterpiece of pure storytelling and fable-making. What is timeless about this novel makes it very timely indeed.
“If you read stories to be entertained, read The Hakawati. If you enjoy stories of true love, read The Hakawati. If you prefer family sagas, read The Hakawati. If you like adventure tales, read The Hakawati. If you read to stay informed, read The Hakawati. If you read to escape, read The Hakawati. If you read only literary classics, read The Hakawati. If you love fables, watch the news first, then read The Hakawati.
“Rabih Alameddine is the hakawati, and in the very near future, everyone will know how to pronounce his name.”
AMY TAN
“Here it comes, the book of the year, on its own magic carpet. No book this bewitching has ever felt so important; no book this important has ever been so lovingly enchanted. It is a snapshot of our current crisis and a story for the ages.”
ANDREW SEAN GREER
“Astonishing: a triumph of storytelling. It is a page-turner-pure genius.”
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
“Not only a dazzlingly funny book, not only a heartbreakingly beautiful book, it is a downright necessary book in this deeply troubled new century. Great and enduring.”
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
“Wonderful: a terrific novel.”
DOROTHY ALLISON
“An epic in the oldest and newest senses, careening from the Koran to the Old Testament, Homer to Scheherazade. It’s hard to imagine the person who wouldn’t get carried away.”
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
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