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" The hakawati / "
Rabih Alameddine.
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BL
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972188
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b726558
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| Main Entry
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Alameddine, Rabih.
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| Title & Author
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The hakawati /\ Rabih Alameddine.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2008.
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1 online resource (513 pages)
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| ISBN
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0307269272
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: 9780307269270
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0307266796
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0307386279
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9780307266798
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9780307386274
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| Abstract
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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.
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Storytellers, Fiction.
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FICTION-- General.
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Storytellers.
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Middle East, Fiction.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS3551.L215H35 2008eb
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