An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine

Detalii:

nWinner of the California Book Award nFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award n nFinalist for the National Book Award n nBeautiful and absorbing.--New York Times n nAn Unnecessary Woman is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive womans late-life crisis, which garnered a wave of rave reviews and love letters to Alameddines cranky yet charming septuagenarian protagonist, Aaliya, a character you cant help but love (NPR). Aaliyas 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 womans life in the Middle East and an enduring ode to literature and its power to define who we are. n nA paean to the transformative power of reading, to the intellectual asylum from ones circumstances found in the life of the mind.--LA Review of Books n n The novel] throbs with energy... Aaliyas] inventive way with words gives unfailing pleasure, no matter how dark the events she describes, how painful the emotions she reveals.--Washington Post nn

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89.28 ^RON

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