Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine is the author of the story collection The Perv, and the novels Koolaids, I, the Divine, The Hakawati, An Unnecessary Woman, and most recently, The Angel of History. He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.

The excerpt in “More Everything – Having” is from THE HAKAWATI by Rabih Alameddine, copyright © 2008 by Rabih Alameddine. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

The Way of Way Too Much: An Excerpt from “The Hakawati”