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1) The hakawati
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
An interweaving of five separate narratives: the story of a Lebanese American returning to Beirut to attend to his dying father; the al-Kharrat family’s rise to prominence; the Mameluk warrior Baybars; the mythic Fatima, who became the consort of the jinni Afrit-Jehanam; and, the disintegration of a tolerant, civilized Lebanon into a battleground for competing religions, ethnicities, and ideologies. Each story is further enhanced by smaller ones...
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