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02.05: Rabih Alameddine
2014-01-14 00:36:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
One of the Middle East's most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press), an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, 72-year-old "unnecessary" woman. 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." In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman's late-life crisis, readers follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. A love letter to literature and its power to define who we are, the prodigiously gifted Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East.
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