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An Unnecessary Woman (Standard format, CD, Unabridged): Rabih Alameddine

An Unnecessary Woman (Standard format, CD, Unabridged)

Rabih Alameddine; Narrated by Suzanne Toren

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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
Narrators: Suzanne Toren
Dimensions: 133 x 159 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: CD  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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