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Rabih Alameddine

An Unnecessary Woman

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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 Lebane… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4721-1920-9
  • EAN: 9781472119209
  • Produktnummer: 17204347
  • Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
  • Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.5 cm x D2.5 cm 240 g
  • Gewicht: 240

Über den Autor


Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids, and I, the Divine, The Hakawati, the story collection, The Perv, and most recently, An Unnecessary Woman. He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.

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