Rabih Alameddine: An Unnecessary Woman

An Unnecessary Woman


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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""

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Author: Rabih Alameddine
Number of Pages: 304 pages
Published Date: 22 Jan 2015
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780802122940
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