One of Beirut’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, revealing Beirut’s beauties and horrors along the way.
Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, divorced, and childless, 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 translated have never been read—by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, "the three witches,” discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya accidentally dyes her hair too blue.
In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman’s late-life crisis, readers follow Aaliya’s digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Insightful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya’s 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.
A love letter to literature and its power to define who we are, the gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of a single woman's reclusive life in the Middle East.
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主角在黎巴嫩首都贝鲁特度过漫长的一生，经历过动荡不安的战火。我们习以为常的日常琐碎，比如稳定的电气供应，比如如约而至的维修人员等等，对她来说却是难能可贵的，甚至是奇迹般的存在。同时作者设定主角对书无比的热爱，通过渊博的引经据典，让我的阅读清单丰富了很多。
评分主角在黎巴嫩首都贝鲁特度过漫长的一生，经历过动荡不安的战火。我们习以为常的日常琐碎，比如稳定的电气供应，比如如约而至的维修人员等等，对她来说却是难能可贵的，甚至是奇迹般的存在。同时作者设定主角对书无比的热爱，通过渊博的引经据典，让我的阅读清单丰富了很多。
评分主角在黎巴嫩首都贝鲁特度过漫长的一生，经历过动荡不安的战火。我们习以为常的日常琐碎，比如稳定的电气供应，比如如约而至的维修人员等等，对她来说却是难能可贵的，甚至是奇迹般的存在。同时作者设定主角对书无比的热爱，通过渊博的引经据典，让我的阅读清单丰富了很多。
评分主角在黎巴嫩首都贝鲁特度过漫长的一生，经历过动荡不安的战火。我们习以为常的日常琐碎，比如稳定的电气供应，比如如约而至的维修人员等等，对她来说却是难能可贵的，甚至是奇迹般的存在。同时作者设定主角对书无比的热爱，通过渊博的引经据典，让我的阅读清单丰富了很多。
评分主角在黎巴嫩首都贝鲁特度过漫长的一生，经历过动荡不安的战火。我们习以为常的日常琐碎，比如稳定的电气供应，比如如约而至的维修人员等等，对她来说却是难能可贵的，甚至是奇迹般的存在。同时作者设定主角对书无比的热爱，通过渊博的引经据典，让我的阅读清单丰富了很多。
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