Rabih Alameddine's Reviews
Reviews of Rabih’s Work
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Feb.01.2008
Published by Kirkus Reviews
“Alameddine mingles a four-generation family saga with a cornucopia of Arabian tales and historical dramas to create a one-of-a-kind novel. Osama al-Kharrat returns in 2003 to...
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Feb.25.2008
Published by Publishers Weekly
“Magical . . . Stories descend from stories as families descend from families . . . telling tales of contemporary Lebanon that converge, ingeniously, with timeless Arabic fables....
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Mar.15.2008
Published by Booklist
“Opulent and picaresque . . . In this grand saga of a Beirut family with Armenian, English, and Druze roots, Alameddine constructs stories within stories that encompass the world...
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Mar.01.2008
Published by Library Journal
“Alameddine assumes the role of a hakawati . . . in a tour de force that interweaves at least five separate narratives into an exquisite tapestry in the denouement. He spins the...
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Apr.01.2008
Published by Condé Nast Traveler
“Dazzling . . . weaves together spellbinding reimaginings of two of the Arab world’s most bewitching tales—that of Fatima and Baybars, the famous slave king, and of Osama al-...
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Apr.01.2008
Published by Details Magazine
“In this entertaining, kaleidoscopic novel, a young Lebanese-American returns to Beirut to visit his dying father. Taking a cue from The Arabian Nights, Alameddine intertwines...
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Apr.01.2008
Published by National Geographic Traveler
“If you like The Arabian Nights, check out The Hakawati. . . . Fables, both old and new, reinterpreted by Alameddine, weave throughout a modern-day story: Lebanese narrator Osama...
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May.01.2008
Published by Paste Magazine
“Mesmerizing . . . Alameddine’s book is sui generis . . . like a magic carpet transporting you to a place where fables and history, weddings and funerals, murder and sacrifice,...
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Apr.17.2008
Published by Rocky Mountain News
“Prepare yourself for takeoff on a fantastic magic carpet ride. Rabih Alameddine’s new novel is an Arabian Nights for the 21st century. Bewitching readers with tales of...
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Apr.20.2008
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
“Bravely ambitious . . . This is the stuff of the day-to-day becoming extraordinary, the work of the hakawati, the storyteller: merging the mundane and the fabulous. The Hakawati...
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Dec.16.2002
Published by Los Angeles Times
Rabih Alameddine’s new novel unfolds like a secret, guarded too long, which is at last pushing toward the light: It moves in jagged lines, flows forward and backward andsideways....
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Jun.11.1998
Published by TimeOut (New York)
By the time Eleanor Roosevelt rips into Tom Cruise and tells him to just shut up, it’s clear that Koolaids: The Art of War is not exactly a linear novel. In fact, it’s hardly...
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Nov.07.1999
Published by Sunday Herald
A book that refuses despair by the sheer exuberance and inventiveness of its style. The topics may seem gloomy---the impact of the Aids epidemic and the Lebanese civil war on...
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About Rabih
Fiction writer
Causes Rabih Alameddine Supports
www.assabil.com (Helping the public libraries in Lebanon)
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