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An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You could say I was thinking of other things when I shampooed my hair blue, and two glasses of red wine didn't help my concentration. Let me explain. At the end of the year, before I begin a new project, I read the translation I've completed. I do final corrections (minor), set the pages in order, and p ...Show more
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"I can't remember the last time I was so gripped simply by a novel's voice...Aaliya is thoughtful, she's complex, she's humorous and critical."--NPR.com "Beautiful and absorbing."--"New York Times" "An Unnecessary Woman" is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive woman's late-life crisis, which garnere ...Show more
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab ma ...Show more
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab ma ...Show more
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a "hakawati," or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are ...Show more
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refuge ...Show more
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