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The Hakawati

English · Paperback

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Zusatztext "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. The Hakawati is both a snapshot of our current crisis! and a story for the ages. What else can we ask the djinn of literature for? Informationen zum Autor Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman ; I, the Divine ; Koolaids ; The Hakawati ; and the story collection, The Perv . Klappentext Osama returns to Beirut to be at his father's deathbed, with a cycle of stories unfolding from there in the tradition of Osama's grandfather who was a hakawati - a storyteller. Zusammenfassung 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.

About the author

Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman; I, the Divine; Koolaids; The Hakawati; and the story collection, The Perv.

Product details

Authors Rabih Alameddine, Alameddine Rabih
Publisher Corsair
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 30.06.2019
 
EAN 9781472154804
ISBN 978-1-4721-5480-4
No. of pages 528
Dimensions 128 mm x 200 mm x 38 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction

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