An Unnecessary Woman
By:Rabih Alameddine
Published on 2014-02-04 by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Winner of the California Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the National Book Award Beautiful and absorbing.” New York Times 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 help but love” (NPR). Aaliya’s insightful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and her 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. Here, the gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East and an enduring ode to literature and its power to define who we are. A paean to the transformative power of reading, to the intellectual asylum from one’s circumstances found in the life of the mind.” LA Review of Books [The novel] throbs with energy [Aaliya’s] inventive way with words gives unfailing pleasure, no matter how dark the events she describes, how painful the emotions she reveals.” Washington Post
This Book was ranked at 25 by Google Books for keyword The Woman in the Window.

Book ID of An Unnecessary Woman's Books is Nh2BAgAAQBAJ, Book which was written byRabih Alameddine
Book which was published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic since 2014-02-04 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780802192875 and ISBN 10 Code is 0802192874

Book which have "306 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryFiction
This Book was rated by 32 Raters and have average rate at "4.0"
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