by Rabih Alameddine · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467233506
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«El contador de historias» is the novel by Rabih Alameddine published by Lumen in hardcover (664 pages, in Spanish).
In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut to say goodbye to his ailing father, and the reunion with the memory of his grandfather, a hakawati or professional storyteller, weaves family history with traditional tales of the Middle East, where reality and fable intertwine.
Original title: The Hakawati. The novel was published in 2008 and has been translated into ten languages.
For readers aged 12 and up interested in novels that blend family memory and oral tradition of the Middle East.
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.
