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An Unnecessary Woman

63,00 lei

Categorii: Neclasificat

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2015

Editura: Corsair

Tip copertă: Paperback

Nr Pag: 304

ISBN: 9781472119209

Dimensiuni: l: 13cm | H: 20cm | 2.3cm | 244g

An Unnecessary Woman

63,00 lei

Descriere

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 favourite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read - by anyone.

This breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman follows Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Colourful 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 ageing 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 magnificent rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East.

Bookseller Ray says A reclusive Arab women translates the great classics of literature into Arabic for her own edification and peace of mind. Humorous, humane and illuminating and a great insight into what it's like to be a woman living in the Middle East. A wise novel indeed.