Hakawati

Autor*innen

• Rabih Alameddine
• Amy Tan

Parameter

• 530 Seiten
• 19 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Fantasy
• Historische Romane
• Libanon
• Magischer Realismus

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'The Hakawati' - or, 'The Storyteller' - is a sweeping, wildly imaginative feast of a novel, bursting with the myths of the Middle East. At its emotional core is the reunion of a long-standing Beiruti family, whose patriarch is dying and visited on his deathbed by his children and by memories of his ancestors. Rabih Alameddine tells their stories - of crusades and battles; chicanery, betrayal and sex; family rivalry, family disunity and family life - and spins them together with the historical stories of the region, but with a twist. Born in Beirut, living in San Francisco, and writing in English, Alameddine not only spans both Western and Middle-Eastern culture, but does so as one of the most mischievous and inventive writers at work.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008