An unnecessary woman / Rabih Alameddine.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alameddine, Rabih (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:291 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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