The Hakawati
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Stunning New York Times Book ReviewHere 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? Andrew Sean Greer, Author Of The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lessin 2003, Osama Al-Kharrat Returns To Beirut After Many Years In America To Stand Vigil At His FatherS Deathbed. As The Family Gathers, Stories Begin To Unfold: OsamaS 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.Sharp, Seductive Storytelling O, The Oprah Magazine
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