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Feb 19, 2014 · An Unnecessary Woman: A Novel. By Rabih Alameddine. Grove Press. 320 pp. Reviewed by Sally Shivnan. February 19, 2014. A woman, defined as useless, struggles for dignity alone in her Beirut apartment, equipped only with books, memories — and an unforgettable voice. Family and society define Aaliya, the narrator of Rabih Alameddine’s new ...
Feb 4, 2014 · An Unecessary Woman is Rabih Alameddine's fourth novel. But somehow there's still room for sex, guns and Gustav Mahler. I can't remember the last time I was so gripped simply by a novel's voice ...
Jan 3, 2023 · In Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman – self-described as “a love letter to literature, to reading, and its ability to define who we are” – this transformational power is deftly displayed. The character is Aaliya, a sardonic and solitary 72-year-old translator, and the world is Aaliya’s Beirut, made up of cynicism and nostalgia.
An Unnecessary Woman (2014), a novel by Lebanese American author and painter Rabih Alameddine, tells the story of 72-year-old Aaliya Saleh, a literature-loving recluse in Beirut, as she grapples with growing older and reflects on past sorrows and joys, often with great insight and humor. An Unnecessary Woman won the Prix Femina étranger and ...
Mar 20, 2014 · March 20, 2014 at 4:59 p.m. EDT. Scaling back from the epic scope of "The Hakawati," his 2008 feast of storytelling, Rabih Alameddine confines himself to a single perspective in his new novel. Yet ...
Jul 20, 2024 · The narrator of Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman, is herself an outsider, a reclusive, seventy-two-year-old bibliophile who lives alone in the Beirut apartment she’s inhabited since the fifties. Surrounded by her books and her treasured Chopin recordings, we soon learn she’s spent the bulk of her life translating the books she loves into Arabic, purely out of the pleasure of doing ...
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