The Storyteller - Brossura

Alameddine, Rabih

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330454471 ISBN 13: 9780330454476

Casa editrice: Picador, 2009

Riassunto

Listen. Let me take you on a journey beyond imagining. Let me tell you a story . . . The al-Kharrats are a lovable, irrepressible family going through a difficult time. Osama has returned to Beirut after a long absence to be with his ailing father and join the vigil around his bedside, and since storytelling runs in the family's veins - his grandfather was a legendary hakawati - this is no peaceful, reverential scene. It is one of gossip and imagination, of tales remembered and tales invented, of love affairs and civil war, of myths and feisty heroines and warriors and music and not a little magic. Crossing continents, spanning centuries, full of adventure, mischief and surprise, this glorious novel is a twenty-first-century Arabian Nights. Prepare to be enchanted. `A wonder of a book. A work - and a world - that expands our narrow vision, transforming it to one of multiplicity, enchanting it with hope' New York Times `Here it comes, the book of the year, on its own magic carpet of stories. No book this bewitching has ever felt so important' Andrew Sean Greer `A glorious, gorgeous masterpiece of pure storytelling' Amy Tan `Dazzling' Financial Times

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Exhilarating, heartbreaking, mischievously exuberant - this glorious novel is a Midnight's Children for the Middle East

L'autore:

Rabih Alameddine was born in Jordan to Lebanese parents and has lived in Kuwait, Lebanon, England, and the United States. He is the author of two previous novels and a collection of short stories, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco and Beirut.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0330454471
• ISBN 13: 9780330454476
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528