An unnecessary woman
Alameddine, Rabih2015
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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 37 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.
Main title:
An unnecessary woman / Rabih Alameddine.
Author:
Alameddine, Rabih, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2015.
Collation:
291 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Grove, 2014.Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 2014.
ISBN:
9781472119209 (pbk)
Language:
English
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