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- 2007035917 abstract "In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories--of his arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he earned the name al-Kharrat, the fibster--are interwoven with classic tales of the Middle East, stunningly reimagined. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the ancient, fabled Fatima; and Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders. Here, too, are contemporary Lebanese whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war--and of survival.--From publisher description.".
- 2007035917 contributor B10792029.
- 2007035917 coverage "Middle East Fiction.".
- 2007035917 created "2008.".
- 2007035917 date "2008".
- 2007035917 date "2008.".
- 2007035917 dateCopyrighted "2008.".
- 2007035917 description "In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories--of his arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he earned the name al-Kharrat, the fibster--are interwoven with classic tales of the Middle East, stunningly reimagined. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the ancient, fabled Fatima; and Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders. Here, too, are contemporary Lebanese whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war--and of survival.--From publisher description.".
- 2007035917 extent "513 p. ;".
- 2007035917 identifier "0307266796".
- 2007035917 identifier "0307386279".
- 2007035917 identifier "9780307266798".
- 2007035917 identifier "9780307386274".
- 2007035917 identifier 2007035917-b.html.
- 2007035917 identifier 2007035917-d.html.
- 2007035917 identifier 2007035917-s.html.
- 2007035917 issued "2008".
- 2007035917 issued "2008.".
- 2007035917 language "eng".
- 2007035917 publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf,".
- 2007035917 spatial "Middle East Fiction.".
- 2007035917 subject "813/.54 22".
- 2007035917 subject "PS3551.L215 H35 2008".
- 2007035917 subject "Storytellers Fiction.".
- 2007035917 title "The hakawati / Rabih Alameddine.".
- 2007035917 type "text".