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Alameddine, Rabih.
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Storytellers -- Fiction.
Families -- Lebanon -- Fiction.
Folklore -- Middle East -- Fiction.
Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.
Lebanon -- Fiction.
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Alameddine, Rabih.
Storytellers -- Fiction.
Families -- Lebanon -- Fiction.
Folklore -- Middle East -- Fiction.
Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.
Lebanon -- Fiction.
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The
hakawati
/ Rabih Alameddine.
by
Alameddine, Rabih.
Bond Street Books/Doubleday Canada, c2008.
Call #:
FICTION ALA
Subjects
Storytellers -- Fiction.
Families -- Lebanon -- Fiction.
Folklore -- Middle East -- Fiction.
Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.
Lebanon -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780385664776 (2009 Anchor Canada trade pbk.)
9780385664769 (hc.)
Description:
513 p. ; 25 cm.
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."--Publisher description.
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