An Unnecessary Woman by Alameddine, Rabih

An Unnecessary Woman

Winner of the California Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the...
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Author: Rabih Alameddine
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Language: English
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An Unnecessary Woman by Alameddine, Rabih

An Unnecessary Woman

$56.63

An Unnecessary Woman

$56.63
Author: Rabih Alameddine
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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


Author: Rabih Alameddine
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 02/04/2014
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.81w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780802122148


Award: National Book Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2013 pg. 82
Library Journal 10/15/2013 pg. 82
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2013
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2013
Booklist 11/01/2013 pg. 26
Shelf Awareness 02/14/2014
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 7
Library Journal 09/01/2013

About the Author
Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids, I, the Divine, and The Hakawati, and the story collection The Perv.

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