03266cam a2200469 4500 349568135 TxAuBib 20180421120000.0 090813s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307269270 electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions 0307269272 electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions B0017L8N5U Amazon 4a2066ff-f83d-4437-8115-0e57aaa74b82 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1456 1456 1456 148179 OverDrive (Product ID) (OCoLC)430322278 TEFOD TEFOD JIC TxAuBib Alameddine, Rabih. The hakawati [Bridges eBook] / Rabih Alameddine. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 513 p. ; 25 cm. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 586kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories--of his arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he earned the name al-Kharrat, the fibster--are interwoven with classic tales of the Middle East, stunningly reimagined. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the ancient, fabled Fatima; and Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders. Here, too, are contemporary Lebanese whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war--and of survival.--From publisher description. Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1796 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 548 KB). Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-03-03 20:00:02. Imported from MARC file. Storytellers Fiction. Middle East Fiction. Electronic books. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=4A2066FF-F83D-4437-8115-0E57AAA74B82 https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/4A2/066/FF/Hakawati9780307269270.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4A2066FF-F83D-4437-8115-0E57AAA74B82&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/4A2/066/FF/Hakawati9780307269270.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4A2066FF-F83D-4437-8115-0E57AAA74B82&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/4A2/066/FF/Hakawati9780307269270.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4A2066FF-F83D-4437-8115-0E57AAA74B82&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)