The True True Story Of Raja The Gullible (And His Mother)SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD From the inimitable Rabih Alameddine National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN Faulkner Award comes a tragicomic saga set in Lebanon, a modern story of family, memory, and the unbreakable (and insane) 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

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