The Storyteller
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For readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner comes a ”pacy Lebanese mystery. A man is haunted by his father’s disappearance in this acclaimed debut novel set against the backdrop of Middle Eastern politics" ―The Guardian
Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s new homeland, Germany, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old picture of his father and the memory of the bedtime stories he used to tell. The Storytellerfollows the turbulent search of a son for a father whose heart had always kept yearning for his homeland Lebanon. In this moving and engaging novel about family secrets, love, and friendship, Pierre Jarawan does for Lebanon what Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. He pulls away the curtain of grim facts and figures portrayed in the media and shows an intimate truth of what it means to come from a country torn apart by civil war. With this beautiful and suspenseful story, full of images, Jarawan proves to be a masterful storyteller himself.
Rachel McNicholl
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Rachel McNicholl is a freelance translator based in Dublin, Ireland. She studied German, Italian and French for her BA, went on to do an MA in German literature, then side-stepped from research into publishing and journalism, where translation was always a big element of her work. She lived in Zurich and Hamburg before returning to Ireland. Apart from translating, she currently works as a freelance editor, a guest lecturer and an adult literacy tutor.
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