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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, readers 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherBrilliance Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-101511320451
ISBN-139781511320450
eBay Product ID (ePID)219684477
Product Key Features
Book TitleKoolaids : the Art of War
TopicWar & Military, Lgbt / Gay, Literary
Publication Year2015
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorRabih Alameddine
FormatCD Mp3
Dimensions
Item Height0.5in
Item Length6.8in
Item Width5.2in
Item Weight2.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Number of Volumes1 Vol.
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition
