Ebook {Epub PDF} The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine

The Hakawati. 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. In , Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father’s deathbed.  · Alameddine’s novel also draws on ancient tradition to make an old form authentically new. At times, the stunning creative drive in “The Hakawati,” with its wealth of stories and characters Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. The incendiary novel by National Book Award finalist Rabih Alameddine, about an Arab American poet, whose adult life in San Francisco spans the AIDS decades, and his hilarious and heartbreaking struggle to remember and forget the events of an astonishing life. Read more».

The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine ISBN ISBN Paperback; New York, Ny: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ; ISBN Read free book excerpt from The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine, page 1 of 6. Read "The Hakawati" by Rabih Alameddine available from Rakuten Kobo. In , Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the.

Rabih Alameddine’s “The Hakawati”. Rabih Alameddine has spun a honeycomb of fable, family history, and Lebanese lore in his newest novel, The Hakawati. I was struck initially by the book's title, the Arabic word for "storyteller.". Reader's Guide. The novel opens with the tale of an emir and his wife who have twelve daughters and seek the aid of their slave, Fatima the Egyptian, to help them have a son. This family tale runs parallel, for much of the book, to the story of Osama and his family. With The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century. Rabih Alameddine is the author of Koolaids, The Perv, and I, the Divine. He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut. Rabih Alameddine is the author of Koolaids, The Perv, and I, the Divine.