Author: Rabih Alameddine
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9780330469692
Back Cover text
Listen. Let me take you on a journey beyond imagining. Let me tell you a story......
The al-kharrats are a loveable, irrepressible family going through a difficult time. Osama has returned to Beirut after a long absence to be with his ailing father and join the vigil around his bedside, and since storytelling runs in the family's veins, his grandfather was a legendary hakawati. This is no peaceful, reverential scene. It is one of gossip and imagination, of tales remembered and tales invented, of love affairs and civil war, of myths and feisty heroines and warriors and music and not a little magic.
Crossing continents, spanning centuries, full of adventures, mischief and surprise, this glorious novel is a twenty-first-century Arabian Nights. Prepare to be enchanted.
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