Description
A young Lebanese-American returns to Beirut to sit with his dying father, only to find that grief, memory, and identity refuse to stay still. Framed like a modern-day tale-telling performance, the novel follows Osama al-Kharrat—an Americanized expat whose sense of belonging is both intimate and foreign—as he moves through a war-scarred city where stories become a way to survive what cannot be fixed. With a kaleidoscopic, Arabian Nights–inspired structure, it braids personal history with cultural myth, exploring exile and return, the inheritance of violence, and the power of narration to transform loss. Rabih Alameddine’s sharp, witty, and deeply humane style turns family reckoning into a larger meditation on language, love, and the stories we tell to make a life—and a homeland—cohere.
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paperback
FLAMMARION (�DITIONS)
Published Sep 15, 2009
574 pages
ISBN: 9782081206021
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Details
First Published
2008
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for HAKAWATI by Rabih Alameddine.