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An Unnecessary Woman

Rabih Alameddine

Hardcover | Pages: 291 pages

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Original Title:	An Unnecessary Woman
ISBN:	0802122140 (ISBN13: 9780802122148)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Beirut(Lebanon)
Literary Awards:	California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2014), Prix Femina for Étranger (2016), Arab American Book Award for Fiction (2015), PEN Open Book Award Nominee for Shortlist (2015), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2014)

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One of Beirut’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, revealing Beirut’s beauties and horrors along the way. Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, divorced, and childless, 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 have never been read—by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, "the three witches,” discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya accidentally dyes her hair too blue. 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. Insightful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya’s 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 gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of a single woman's reclusive life in the Middle East.

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Title	:	An Unnecessary Woman
Author	:	Rabih Alameddine
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	February 4th 2014 by Grove Press (first published 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Literary Fiction. Cultural. Lebanon. Contemporary

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Although I know the characters of a novel as a collection of scenes as well, as accumulated sentences in my head. I feel I know them better than I do my mother. I fill in the blanks with literary personas better than I do with real people, or maybe I make more of an effort. I know Lolitas mother better than I do mine, and I must say, I feel her more than I feel my mother. I recognize Rembrandts painted face of his mother better than I recognize the real face of mine. Aaliyas city otherwise

The first thing that strikes a reader of this book is the vibrancy of the speakers voice. Here are the first two paragraphs:You could say I was thinking of other things when I shampooed my hair blue, and two glasses of red wine didnt help my concentration.Let me explain.I just couldnt help being drawn in by this first person narrator Aaliya, a seventy-two year old woman living alone in Beruit. Shes deemed unnecessary because (as the bookflap tells us) she is Godless, fatherless, childless, and

I really wanted to like this book and I tried to get into it but it felt like sitting next to a great aunt at Thanksgiving who rambles on and on. By the time she says something interesting you realize that you haven't heard a word she has said for the last twenty minutes because you were mentally debating the merits of getting another piece of pie vs. fitting into pants the next day. Now she has said something fairly interesting (along the lines of "that was the year I nearly shot a man with an

"I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, though not conventionally, to this visible world so I can retreat without much inconvenience into my inner world of books..... if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain. Literature gives me life, and

I found myself completely engrossed in this strange and quietly melancholic tale of elderly Aaliya and her musings. At once a love letter to her beloved city of Beirut, a celebration of literature, and a meditative look back on her life, this story captivated and moved me. Although Aaliyas life was relatively uneventful (even through war times, arranged marriage and her AK-47), it was more interesting than I thought it would be. Maybe thats the point. Most of us will not have a life filled with

Was it necessary to read An Unnecessary Woman? About a woman in the twilight of her life, a product of rusted times? A woman from a foreign land, and of foreign blood? A woman who offered pursed whimpers amid teeth that reeked soupy yellow? One with a musty room and a flickering temper? A borderline linguist who made peace with the unspoken word? She was nothing more than a drifting sprinkle of dust in this swirling world of men and ambition. May be, it wasnt. It wasnt necessary at all to read

This was an 'unnecessary' read for me until the last several pages in which I could fully appreciate the extent and expanse of the story, the character. Prior to that, it was depressive and heavily laden with poetical and literary references that were hurting my head. This is the story of 72 year old Aaliya, from Lebanon. A reflection of her life which she deemed as 'unnecessary'. Her definition being she was a divorcee, a mediocre cook and childless. Yet, she was highly educated, well versed in