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PIERRE JARAWAN at Books Inc. Berkeley

April 24, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm UTC+0

Internationally-acclaimed writer Pierre Jarawan shares his astounding debut novel, The Storyteller.

Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s adopted home, Germany, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. 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.

Pierre Jarawan is the son of 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. His debut novel The Storyteller was a Spiegel bestseller in Germany, proclaimed Book of the Month by the leading Dutch television talk show DWDD, and received unanimous rave reviews from the European press.

 

Event date:
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 – 7:00pm
Event address:
Books Inc.
1491 Shattuck Ave
BerkeleyCA

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Date:
April 24, 2019
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm UTC+0
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Books Inc.
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Books Inc. Berkeley
1491 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley , CA 94710 United States
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510-525-7777
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