{"product_id":"the-storyteller-9781642860115","title":"The Storyteller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Khaled Hosseini's \u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e 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\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamir 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Kite Runner \u003c\/em\u003edid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePierre Jarawan\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 Kunstf?rderpreis) for \u003cem\u003eThe Storyteller\u003c\/em\u003e, and was chosen as Literature Star of the Year by the daily newspaper \u003cem\u003eAZ\u003c\/em\u003e. His debut novel \u003cem\u003eThe Storyteller \u003c\/em\u003ewas a Spiegel bestseller in Germany, proclaimed Book of the Month by the leading Dutch television talk show \u003cem\u003eDWDD\u003c\/em\u003e, and received unanimous rave reviews from the European press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePierre Jarawan\u003c\/b\u003e 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 Kunstf?rderpreis) for \u003ci\u003eThe Storyteller\u003c\/i\u003e, and was chosen as Literature Star of the Year by the daily newspaper AZ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873937527058,"sku":"9781642860115","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5eb39a15-1d31-49be-8edd-4c0fe25a38b1.jpg?v=1737974631","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-storyteller-9781642860115","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}