Rabih Alameddine

• Jul-1999
• / General Fiction
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“Daring, dazzling . . . A tough, funny, heart-breaking book” by the National Book Award�"nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman (The Seattle Times).   Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic in America and the Lebanese ci...

• Jul-1999
• / General Fiction
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A provocative first collection of stories by the author of Koolaids

Following the publication of his critically acclaimed first novel, Koolaids, Rabih Alameddine offers a collection of stories that explores the experience of a number of Le...

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
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Named after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to st...

• Feb-2014
• / Literary
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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 hel...

• Sep-2015
• / Contemporary Romance
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One of the Middle East’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old unnecessary woman. Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her ...

• Oct-2016
• / Literary
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Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic...

• Sep-2021
• / Literary
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WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONBy 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...