Title: HAKAWATI
Description: 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.
Subjects: Lebanon, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, Storytellers, New York Times reviewed, Gossip, Fiction, war & military, Middle east, fiction, Storytelling, Social conditions, Amor en la literatura, Literatura estadounidense, Novela de ciencia ficción, Novela fantástica
Places: Middle East
People: Toni Hill