The Angel of History
A gay poet is haunted by war and the AIDs crisis in this sprawling fever dream of a novel by the Dos Passos Prize-winning author of An Unnecessary Woman (NPR.org).Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic,The Angel of Historyfollows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life. His memories take him from hismaternal upbringing inan Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under theaegisof his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Haunted by an alluring, sassySatan,who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past, and by dour, frigidDeath,who urges him to f…
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Weitere Autoren: Huston, Nancy
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-9011-6
- EAN: 9780802190116
- Produktnummer: 21833181
- Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'193 KB
Über den Autor
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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