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Product Identifiers
PublisherBrilliance Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-10149150739X
ISBN-139781491507391
eBay Product ID (ePID)2309435810
Product Key Features
Book TitleUnnecessary Woman : a Novel
TopicCultural Heritage, Literary
Publication Year2014
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorRabih Alameddine
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 In.
Item Length5.5 In.
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Width6.5 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingAn
Number of Volumes9 vols.
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
SynopsisOne of the Middle East's most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati , with an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-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." Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read--by anyone. In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman's late-life crisis, listeners follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Colorful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya's own 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. A love letter to literature and its power to define who we are, the prodigiously gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East.
