An Unnecessary Woman - Couverture souple

Alameddine, Rabih

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802122949 ISBN 13 : 9780802122940

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014

Synopsis

Winner of the California Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist for the National Book Award
"Beautiful and absorbing."--New York Times

An Unnecessary Woman is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive woman's late-life crisis, which garnered a wave of rave reviews and love letters to Alameddine's cranky yet charming septuagenarian protagonist, Aaliya, a character you "can't help but love" (NPR). Aaliya's insightful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and her volatile past. As she tries to overcome her aging body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. Here, the gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East and an enduring ode to literature and its power to define who we are.

"A paean to the transformative power of reading, to the intellectual asylum from one's circumstances found in the life of the mind." --LA Review of Books

"[The novel] throbs with energy...[Aaliya's] inventive way with words gives unfailing pleasure, no matter how dark the events she describes, how painful the emotions she reveals." --Washington Post

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman; I, the Divine; Koolaids; The Hakawati; and the story collection, The Perv. In 2019, he won the Dos Passos Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802122949
• ISBN 13: 9780802122940
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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