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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Alameddine, Rabih.     Subjects     Recluses -- Fiction.     Book collectors -- Fiction.     Older women -- Fiction.     Women -- Lebanon -- Fiction.     Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Alameddine, Rabih.       by title:      An unnecessary woman...       by call number:      FICTION ALA     Search the Web     Alameddine, Rabih.     Recluses -- Fiction.     Book collectors -- Fiction.     Older women -- Fiction.     Women -- Lebanon -- Fiction.     Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

An unnecessary woman : a novel / Rabih Alameddine. by Alameddine, Rabih. Grove Press, c2014. Call #: FICTION ALA Subjects Recluses -- Fiction.   Book collectors -- Fiction.   Older women -- Fiction.   Women -- Lebanon -- Fiction.   Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780802122148 0802122140 Edition:  1st ed. Description:  291 p. 22 cm. Summary:  "Aaliya Sohbi 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 favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime 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. Colorful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya's own 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." --Publisher. Genre:  Psychological fiction. Women's fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION ALA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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