Mina Simpson , médica libanesa radicada en Estados Unidos, llega al campo de refugiadosde Moria, en Lesbos. Viaja sola, un retorno a un país tan cercano a su hogar y que haevitado durante décadas. Viene a ayudar, pero también...
Esta magnífica novela nos traslada a un viejo apartamento de Beirut en el que se encuentra una mujer, con el pelo teñido de azul, que tiene una apasionante historia que contar. Por el autor de El contador de historias.
Tras el éxito de El contador de historias , Rabih Alameddine volvió a sorprender al público con esta magnífica novela que nos traslada a un viejo apartamento de Beirut. Ahí encontramos a Aaliya, una mujer con el pelo...
Després de l'èxit de L'home que explicava històries, Rabih Alameddine torna a triomfar amb aquesta magnífica novel·la que, des de les primeres pàgines, ens trasllada a un pis vell de Beirut. Allà...
"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 attachment of a son and his mother. Across his oeuvre,...
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this âforceful, beautifully writtenâ (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest...
"[A] refreshing statement of honesty and endurance ..funny, brave full of heart and willing to say things about war and disease, sexual and cultural politics that have rarely been said so boldly or directly before." --The Sunday Oregonian
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,...
An Unnecessary Woman is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive woman's late-life crisis, which garnered a wave of rave reviews and love letters to Alameddine's cranky yet charming septuagenarian protagonist, Aaliya, a character you "can't...
"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...