The Wrong End of the Telescope by Alameddine, Rabih

The Wrong End of the Telescope

WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONBy National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle...
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Author: Rabih Alameddine
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The Wrong End of the Telescope by Alameddine, Rabih

The Wrong End of the Telescope

$61.15

The Wrong End of the Telescope

$61.15
Author: Rabih Alameddine
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION

By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.


Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them.


Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.



Author: Rabih Alameddine
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 09/21/2021
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.35w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9780802157805


Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/05/2021
Booklist 07/01/2021 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2021
Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 58
Shelf Awareness 11/30/2021

About the Author
Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I, the Divine; Koolaids; and the story collection, The Perv. In 2019, he won the Dos Passos Prize.

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