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He was educated in england and america, and has an engineering degree from ucla and an mba from the university of san francisco. With an unnecessary woman, rabih alameddine has accomplished something astonishing. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. My body is full of sentences and moments, my heart.
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One of the middle easts most celebrated voices, rabih alameddine follows his bestseller, the hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life. An unecessary woman is rabih alameddine s fourth novel. Its a portrait of an isolated woman with a dazzling mind as she comes to grips with getting old. Alameddine says he was inspired by books like vs naipauls a. An unnecessary woman, a piercing study of detachment and. With this accidental act, so begins rabih alameddine s gorgeous fourth novel, an unnecessary woman, the story of a life lived in a city at war. An unnecessary woman, nominated for the national book award.
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Much of an unnecessary woman reads in this fashion, with aaliya dialoguing with the lives and works of great writers while simultaneously recounting the events of her life, from. The novel follows the experiences of an isolated 72yearold woman, aaliya saleh, who is a shutin in beirut, exploring how she deals with. And its a triumph for alameddine, who has created a book worthy of sitting on a shelf next to the great works whose beauty and power his novel celebrates. The early chapters tell of sarahs life as a girl in lebanon and her parents traumatic divorce.
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