The Hakawati
by Rabih Alameddine
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0330456202
- ISBN 13
- 9780330456203
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
7 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
Synopsis
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 beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps. Through Osama, we also enter the world of the contemporary Lebanese men and women whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war, conflicted identity, and survival. With The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10022004
- Title
- The Hakawati
- Author
- Rabih Alameddine
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 7
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330456202
- ISBN 13
- 9780330456203
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Hakawati
- Bookseller catalogs
- Action & Adventure; Fiction;
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