by Rabih Alameddine · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426416834
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«El contador de historias» is the novel by Rabih Alameddine, published by Lumen in hardcover with dust jacket (664 pages, in Spanish).
In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut to bid farewell to his dying father. There, among his family's tales, he recovers the memory of his grandfather, a hakawati or professional storyteller whose stories of heroes, princesses and treasures interweave with the traditional tales of the Near East, from Abraham and Isaac to Fatima.
The work belongs to Lumen's Narrativa collection. The translation is by Toni Hill. The original title of the novel is The Hakawati.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction who enjoy stories within stories, the rewriting of classic tales and magical realism set in Lebanon.
Rabih Alameddine is a Lebanese painter and writer. His 2021 novel The Wrong End of the Telescope won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He also won the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible.
