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Item Information       Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content     More by this author     Alameddine, Rabih.     Subjects     Storytellers -- Fiction.     Families -- Lebanon -- Fiction.     Folklore -- Middle East -- Fiction.     Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.     Lebanon -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Alameddine, Rabih.       by title:      The hakawati / Rabih...       by call number:      FICTION ALA     Search the Web     Alameddine, Rabih.     Storytellers -- Fiction.     Families -- Lebanon -- Fiction.     Folklore -- Middle East -- Fiction.     Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.     Lebanon -- Fiction.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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