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El contador de historias/ The Hakawati (Spanish Edition)
by Rabih Alameddine

Published: 2008-10-30
Hardcover : 660 pages
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"Returning to Beirut after many years in America in anticipation of his father's coming death, Osama al-Kharrat finds a turbulent, war-torn city far different than that he remembers but takes solace in the entertaining stories of his hakawati (storyteller) grandfather, in a novel that brings ...
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"Returning to Beirut after many years in America in anticipation of his father's coming death, Osama al-Kharrat finds a turbulent, war-torn city far different than that he remembers but takes solace in the entertaining stories of his hakawati (storyteller) grandfather, in a novel that brings together imaginative retellings of classic Middle Eastern tales with the world of modern-day Lebanon."

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