This is not the first time that Alameddine has used such literary structure. His first novel, "Koolaids", intertwined two parallel stories, the worst years of the crisis of AIDS and the civil war in the Lebanon. There, as in "The Hakawati," stories resonated with one another. And her second novel, "I, the divine,"an ingenious work in the first chapters of the memoirs of the narrator of his never completed, was able to give us multiple perspectives on the events told by one character, as much the Hakawati gives us several views of universal themes that echo through very different stories." But while the two previous works had some rough edges and facets not polished, "The Hakawati" is a gem perfect, polished, complex, complex and with all the characteristics used to amplify its brightness and dazzle. Here is a writer who grew up in his promise initial, perhaps later. To learn more...
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