![]() ![]() RABIH ALAMEDDINE (Author, "The Hakawati"): (Reading) I know who you are, Fatima said to the keeper of the marble gate. One thread leads us straight to the underworld where the prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatima is reinvented as a conquering heroine. There are the mythic wars of Arab lore and the real civil war in Lebanon. ![]() ![]() That's the brightest thread of this tale, but this is the story of a thousand threads, interweaving legends, fables and parables. JACKI LYDEN: A man returns to his native Beirut after long years spent in Los Angeles to visit the bedside of his dying father. He followed up with a novel made up entirely of first chapters, and now his latest, a fantastic tapestry called "The Hakawati."Īfter reading it, my colleague Jacki Lyden said she didn't want to return to the mundane world. It was an impressionistic work with characters struggling against AIDS in America and civil war in Lebanon. Rabih Alameddine published his first novel ten years ago. ![]()
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