True True Story of Raja the Gullible HC romance The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

separate towns

It highlights his acclaimed work in the region

and the corrosive hold of family secrets across oceans and time

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series

True True Story of Raja the Gullible HC romance The Boston GlobeWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.NPR From the winner of the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty three year old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and the neighborhood homosexual, Raja relishes