Rabih Alameddine - Böcker

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 favourite book into Arabic, then st...

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'Stunning' New York Times Book Review 'Here it comes, the book of the year, on its own magic carpet. No book this bewitching has ever felt so important; no book this important has ever been so lovingly enchanted. The Hakawati is bot...

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In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are inter...

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Alameddine's astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel takes readers from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of 21-century Lebanon. "The Hakawati" is a funny, captivating novel that enchants and dazz...

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A dazzling literary debut, KOOLAIDS shatters the dimension of time and mimes the chaos of contemporary existence as it details the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war on a circle of family and friends. In clips, quips, memories ...

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"Alameddine's new novel unfolds like a secret...creating a tale...humorous and heartbreaking and always real" (Los Angeles Times). "[W]ith each new approach, [Sarah] sheds another layer of her pretension, revealing another truth abo...

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Winner of the California Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the National Book Award "Beautiful and absorbing."--New York Times An Unnecessary Woman is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive woma...

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A Washington Independent Review of Books, Literary Hub, and Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year An Unnecessary Woman won the California Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PE...

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Inspired by his volunteer work at Lesbos refugee camps over the years, Alameddine has written a deeply moving and innovative novel threading together the stories of one refugee family seeking asylum, a trans woman's coming of age, and a writer's s...

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A timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literature's leading lights In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very...

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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 favourite book into Arabic, then st...

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'A profoundly beautiful novel that infolds the political with the personal in unexpected and new ways . . . An extraordinary book' Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2016''His stories take the reader into the labyrinth that is the m...

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'A profoundly beautiful novel that infolds the political with the personal in unexpected and new ways . . . An extraordinary book' Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2016' 'His stories take the reader into t...

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'In this delightful novel, Alameddine takes his greatest risks yet, and succeeds brilliantly, in a work that while marked by radical formal innovation, manages to be warm, sad, funny and moving' Michael ChabonNamed by her grandfather after 'the Di...

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'In this delightful novel, Alameddine takes his greatest risks yet, and succeeds brilliantly, in a work that while marked by radical formal innovation, manages to be warm, sad, funny and moving' Michael Chabon Named by her grandfather af...

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'Stunning' New York Times Book Review'Here it comes, the book of the year, on its own magic carpet. No book this bewitching has ever felt so important; no book this important has ever been so lovingly enchanted. The Hakawati is both a snapshot of ...

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WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 2022'A beautiful, well paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian 'Spectacular . . . Alameddine's irreverent prose evokes the old master storytellers from my own Middle Eastern home . ....

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By National Book Award finalist and Dos Passos Prize winner, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's personal journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at...

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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 devast...

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WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 2022 'A beautiful, well paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian 'Spectacular . . . Alameddine's irreverent prose evokes the old master storytellers from my own Mi...

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Jakob, Mitte 50, sitzt im Wartezimmer einer Nervenklinik und bittet um Aufnahme. Er erlebt die Welt als eine einzige Katastrophe: Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass sein gesamter Freundeskreis der Aids-Epidemie zum Opfer fiel. Dieser Verlust hat einen...

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Aaliya lever sitt liv i Beirut, i en våning som har varit hennes sedan hon var ung och gift. Skild, barnlös, gudlös, faderlös och fyllda 72 - en belägenhet som knappast ger så mycket prestige, varken i världen eller i Libanon - har hon dragit sig ...

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Ajuns? la ?aptezeci ?i doi de ani, Aaliya, o femeie care nu se simte necesar? nim?nui, poveste?te despre sine ?i despre cei apropia?i. Locuie?te singur? ÿntr-un apartament din Beirut, dar casa ei ad?poste?te sute de tomuri, cum nimeni din capital...

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