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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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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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD From the inimitable Rabih Alameddine - National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - comes a tragicomic saga set in Lebanon, a modern story of family, memory, and the unbreakable (and i...

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In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In 'Super-Frog Saves Tokyo', Haruki Murakami presents a ma...

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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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'Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life' Yiyun Li 'Rabih Alameddine is one our most daring writers - daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy, but as a surgeon, a philosophe...

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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 about her humanit...

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A gay poet is haunted by war and the AIDs crisis in this "sprawling fever dream of a novel" by the National Book Award-winning author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (NPR.org). Set over the course of one night in the w...

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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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'Here is a book, full of story, unrepentantly political at every level. At a time when many western writers seem to be in retreat from saying anything that could be construed as political, Alameddine says it all, shamelessly, gloriously and, reali...

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'Here is a book, full of story, unrepentantly political at every level. At a time when many western writers seem to be in retreat from saying anything that could be construed as political, Alameddine says it all, shamelessly, gloriously and, reali...

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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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'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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'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 devastating and wondr...

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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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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION! 'Relentlessly funny' The New Yorker 'Darkly comic . . . I loved it' The Guardian From the inimitable Rabih Alameddine - winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award - comes a tragicomi...

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION!'Relentlessly funny' The New Yorker'Darkly comic . . . I loved it' The GuardianFrom the inimitable Rabih Alameddine - winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award - comes a tragicomic s...

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In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and 'the neighborhood homosexual,' Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian...

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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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