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008			141022s2013 nyu 000 1 eng d
010			_a 2013497349
020			_a9780802122940
020			_a9780802122148 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9780802192875 (ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn852223469
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050	0	0	_aPS3551.L215 _bU56 2013
082	0	4	_a813/.54 _223
100	1		_aAlameddine, Rabih,
245	1	3	_aAn unnecessary woman / _cRabih Alameddine.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bGrove Press, _c[2013]
300			_a291 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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" -- _cfrom publisher's web site.
650		0	_aRecluses _zLebanon _zBeirut _vFiction.
650		0	_aWomen _zLebanon _zBeirut _vFiction.
651		0	_aBeirut (Lebanon) _vFiction.
948			_au379588
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