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Osama alkharrat returns in 2003 to beirut, where his family once owned a prosperous car dealership, to visit his dying father farid. Hakawati is an arabic word that literally means a storyteller. At its emotional core is the reunion of a longstanding beiruti family, whose patriarch is dying and visited on his deathbed by his children and by memories of his ancestors. Rabih alameddines new novel, the hakawati, is a sprawling, delicious panoply of overthetop tales of love, sex, murder, heroism, magic, loss, triumph, skulduggery, noblesse, repentance, lies, redemption, loyalty, curses, and just about everything else, all plaited into a set of parallel narratives which augment and illuminate each other. This book abdullah novel pdf by hashim nadeem is a classic romantic story.
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