The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine

The Hakawati

Rabih Alameddine with Marina Rotondo (Translator), Francesco Nitti (Translator)

751 pages hardcover 2008

16 editions

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An inventive, exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon.In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father’s d...

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