The Resource The hakawati, Rabih Alameddine
The hakawati, Rabih Alameddine
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 513 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307386274
- Label
- The hakawati
- Title
- The hakawati
- Statement of responsibility
- Rabih Alameddine
- Title variation
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- Hakawati
- Storyteller
- Subject
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- Middle East -- Fiction
- trueNorth American people
- trueSouthwest Asia and North Africa (Middle East)
- trueSouthwest Asian (Middle Eastern) people
- trueStorytellers
- Storytellers -- Fiction
- trueStorytelling
- trueAmerican people
- trueAsian people
- trueBeirut, Lebanon
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFather and adult son
- trueLebanese people
- trueLebanese-Americans
- trueLebanon
- trueMiddle East
- trueMiddle Eastern people
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2009.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2008.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 251259
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Alameddine, Rabih
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3551.L215
- LC item number
- H35 2008
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Middle East
- Storytellers
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The hakawati, Rabih Alameddine
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 513 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307386274
- Lccn
- 2007035917
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 167764279
- (OCoLC)167764279
- Label
- The hakawati, Rabih Alameddine
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 513 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307386274
- Lccn
- 2007035917
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 167764279
- (OCoLC)167764279
Subject
- Middle East -- Fiction
- trueNorth American people
- trueSouthwest Asia and North Africa (Middle East)
- trueSouthwest Asian (Middle Eastern) people
- trueStorytellers
- Storytellers -- Fiction
- trueStorytelling
- trueAmerican people
- trueAsian people
- trueBeirut, Lebanon
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFather and adult son
- trueLebanese people
- trueLebanese-Americans
- trueLebanon
- trueMiddle East
- trueMiddle Eastern people
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