One of the Middle East's most celebrated voices, Rabih
Alameddine follows his international bestseller, "The Hakawati,"
with an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive,
seventy-two-year-old "unnecessary" woman.
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 favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The
thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime
have never been read?by anyone.
In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman's late-life
crisis, listeners follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets
across visions of past and present Beirut. Colorful 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 aging 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 nuanced
rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East.
General
Imprint: |
Brilliance Audio
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2014 |
First published: |
August 2014 |
Authors: |
Rabih Alameddine
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Narrators: |
Suzanne Toren
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Dimensions: |
133 x 159 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Standard format
|
Disks: |
9 |
Running time: |
634 minutes |
Edition: |
Unabridged |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4915-0739-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4915-0739-X |
Barcode: |
9781491507391 |
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