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WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 'A beautiful, well
paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian
'Favorite novel of the year? Tough choice for me, but maybe The
Wrong End of the Telescope, which was devastating and wondrous.
Nobody writes like Rabih. Nobody gets anywhere close' John Green
(#1 bestselling author) via Twitter 'Spectacular . . . Alameddine's
irreverent prose evokes the old master storytellers from my own
Middle Eastern home . . . deeply poignant' New York Times 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 this humanitarian crisis. 'Alameddine hits a
distinctly contemporary note with this new book about refugees . .
. it feels totally authentic' Sunday Times
General
Imprint: |
Corsair
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2021 |
Authors: |
Rabih Alameddine
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Dimensions: |
236 x 158 x 34mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4721-5611-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4721-5611-0 |
Barcode: |
9781472156112 |
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