The Storyteller, Paperback Book, By: Pierre Jarawan

Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family's adopted home in germany for volatile beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. His only clues are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. The storyteller follows samir's search for brahim, the father whose heart was always yearning for his homeland, lebanon. In this moving and gripping 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 to reveal the intimate story of an exiled family torn apart by civil war and guilt. In this rich and skillful account, jarawan proves that he too is a masterful storyteller. About Pierre Jarawan Pierre jarawan was born in 1985 to a lebanese father and a german mother and moved to germany with his family at the age of three. Inspired by his father's love of telling imaginative bedtime stories, he started writing at the age of thirteen. He has won international prizes as a slam poet, received the city of munich literary scholarship (the bayerische kunstförderpreis) for the storyteller, and was chosen as literature star of the year by the daily newspaper az.