An Unnecessary Woman - Softcover

Alameddine, Rabih

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472119207 ISBN 13: 9781472119209

Verlag: Corsair, 2015

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Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller The Hakawati with an enchanting story of the life of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old, blue-haired 'unnecessary woman', living in Beirut. This is a novel to savour.

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Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman; I, the Divine; Koolaids; The Hakawati; and the story collection, The Perv.

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A US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014 FINALIST

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[Excerpt opens] I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time . . . If literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain. Literature give me life, and life kills me.

Well, life kills everyone. [Excerpt ends]

'Beautiful and absorbing.' New York Times

'Exquisite . . . This one's a keeper.' Independent

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Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage'. Every year, she translates a new favourite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that she has translated over her lifetime have never been read or touched by anyone but her.

An Unnecessary Woman is a breathtaking portrait of a woman in her solitude. It follows Aaliya's firefly mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Her delightfully colourful musings on literature, philosophy and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War, and her own volatile past. As Aaliya tries to overcome her ageing body and spontaneously emotional outbursts, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to break apart the tidy life she has made for herself.

A love letter to literature, to reading and its power to define who we are, the prodigiously gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a magnificent portrait of one woman's life in the Middle East.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Corsair
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1472119207
• ISBN 13: 9781472119209
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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