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Original Title:	An Unnecessary Woman
ISBN:	0802122140 (ISBN13: 9780802122148)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Beirut(Lebanon)
Literary Awards:	California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2014), Prix Femina for Étranger (2016), Arab American Book Award for Fiction (2015), PEN Open Book Award Nominee for Shortlist (2015), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2014)

An Unnecessary Woman

Rabih Alameddine

Hardcover | Pages: 291 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 10202 Users | 1709 Reviews

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One of Beirut’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, revealing Beirut’s beauties and horrors along the way. Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, divorced, and childless, 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 have never been read—by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, "the three witches,” discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya accidentally dyes her hair too blue. In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman’s late-life crisis, readers follow Aaliya’s digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Insightful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya’s 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 gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of a single woman's reclusive life in the Middle East.

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Title	:	An Unnecessary Woman
Author	:	Rabih Alameddine
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	February 4th 2014 by Grove Press (first published 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Literary Fiction. Cultural. Lebanon. Contemporary

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There is so much to love in this book - beautifully written, a complex and compelling main character, a vivid exploration of a foreign culture and an homage to books and the love of reading.Aaliyah Saleh is the narrator and she is speaking to you, the reader. Aaliyah is divorced, childless and friendless and has lived on her own for many years in an apartment in Beirut. She worked in a bookstore but is now retired. Each year, she translates a major piece of literature from French or English to



Although I know the characters of a novel as a collection of scenes as well, as accumulated sentences in my head. I feel I know them better than I do my mother. I fill in the blanks with literary personas better than I do with real people, or maybe I make more of an effort. I know Lolitas mother better than I do mine, and I must say, I feel her more than I feel my mother. I recognize Rembrandts painted face of his mother better than I recognize the real face of mine. Aaliyas city otherwise

Rating: 4.25* of fiveThe Publisher Says: One of Beiruts most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, revealing Beiruts beauties and horrors along the way.Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, divorced, and childless, Aaliya is her familys "unnecessary appendage. Every year, she translates a new

Just before I began this book I learned that Rabih is a mans name, a Middle-Eastern mans name. It means, alternatively, spring, or winner. I wondered what kind of Middle Eastern man felt he could write a book about the internal life of an aging widow. And now I know. It would be a man who reads.This is a book about loneliness and connection. Aaliya, a name meaning the exalted one, is a translator. That is, she spends her time translating into Arabic books written in English or French. Some of

A generous three stars. The author may one day write a wonderful novel -- there were a handful of perfectly phrased, insightful passages -- but I too often disbelieved this one's artifice, its artful artlessness. I didn't trust it -- the author clearly animated the voice and its perception. Too many similes in the language, everything overimbued (ie, sentences suffered from Clever Analogy Overload Disorder). Intertexual intrusion to the freaking max, always arriving right on schedule, always