About the Book: Hakawati
Here it comes, the book of the year, on its own magic carpet. No book this
bewitching has ever felt so important; no book this important has ever been so
lovingly enchanted. The Hakawati is both a snapshot of our current crisis, and a
story for the ages. What else can we ask the djinn of literature for? Andrew
Sean Greer, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Less In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat
returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his fathers
deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osamas grandfather was
a hakawati, or storyteller, and