# The Hakawati

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- Book: [The Hakawati](https://www.bookquiver.com/rabih-alameddine/the-hakawati) ([The Hakawati.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rabih-alameddine/the-hakawati.md))
- Authors: [Rabih Alameddine](https://www.bookquiver.com/rabih-alameddine)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-0738-627-4
- Pages: 528
- Published: 2009-06-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller,...