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One of the Middle East's most famous voices, Rabih Alameddine employs his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with an charming story of an book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old "unnecessary" girl. Aaliya Saleh lives by itself in her Beirut apartment, bounded by stockpiles of literature. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's needless appendage. Every year, she translates a new favorite e book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven literature that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read by anyone. Within this breathtaking portrait of an reclusive woman's late-life problems, readers follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of history and present Beirut. Colorful musings on books, philosophy, and art work are invaded by remembrances of the Lebanese Civil Warfare and Aaliya's own volatile history. As she attempts to get over her maturing body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is confronted with an unthinkable devastation that threatens to shatter the little life she's still left. A love letter to literature and its own power to determine who we could, the prodigiously gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced making of 1 woman's life in the centre East.

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