The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

“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 books, meditative walks, order, and sol...