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Format: 291 Seiten ; , 22 cm.

ISBN: 978-0-8021-2294-0

Content: "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 translated over her lifetime 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. Colorful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya's own 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" ..

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Fiktionale Darstellung

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Format: 448 Seiten , 18 cm

Edition: Erste Auflage

ISBN: 9783944153308

Uniform Title: An unnecessary woman

Content: Die pensionierte Buchhändlerin Aaliya lebt einsam und zurückgezogen in Beirut. Um sich zu beschäftigen, übersetzt sie Werke der Weltliteratur ins Arabische, und die Autoren und Figuren ihrer geliebten Romane sind ihr weit näher als die realen Menschen um sie herum.

Note: einzelne Einheit

Language: German

Keywords: Fiktionale Darstellung

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Format: 304 Seiten , 21 cm

Edition: 1. Auflage

ISBN: 9783863002572

Content: Uschi Licht

Content: Jacob, Sohn eines reichen Libanesen und einer jemenitischen Prostituierten, verbringt einen Teil seiner Kindheit in einem Bordell in Kairo, bis ihn sein Vater nach Beirut holt und in einem Internat katholisch erziehen lässt. Jetzt - er ist Mitte 50 und lebt als mittelmäßiger, homosexueller Schriftsteller in San Francisco - sitzt er im Wartezimmer einer psychiatrischen Klinik und wartet auf den Arzt. Ihn plagen Ängste, ausgelöst durch die Meldungen über den blutigen Bürgerkrieg in seiner Heimat, sowie schmerzliche Erinnerungen an die erste große Aids-Welle in den USA, die seinen Lebenspartner und viele seiner Freunde binnen kurzem dahinraffte. Stimmen in seinem Kopf - von Satan und 14 Heiligen, die sein Leben begleitet haben - hindern ihn am Vergessen. Alameddines (vgl. "Eine überflüssige Frau", ID-A 20/16) komplex komponierter Roman verbindet mehrere Perspektiven und Handlungsebenen, reale und surreale, zu einer eindrücklichen Darstellung von Entwurzelung und Einsamkeit in Orient und Okzident, von Tod und Verlust, Religion und Liebe. Keine leichte Lektüre, daher eher für ausgebaute Bestände.

Content: Jacob, ein homosexueller Schriftsteller libanesich-jemenitischer Abstammung, sitzt im Wartezimmer einer psychiatrischen Klink in San Francisco, weil er Stimmen hört und ihn Ängste und Erinnerungen plagen.

Language: German

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Format: 294 Seiten , 22 cm

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 9780802125767

Content: ""There are many ways to break someone's heart, but Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life."-Yiyun Li 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, 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 man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut, Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco, Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives. "Rabih Alameddine is one our most daring writers-daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy, but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer."-Michael Chabon"--

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780802190116

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Roman

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ISBN: 9780802157829

Content: " By National Book Award and the National Book Critics&apos,Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman&apos, journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp&apos, children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya&apos, secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants&apos,displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina&apos, singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis. "

Content: Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from July 5, 2021 A Lebanese doctor travels to the island of Lesbos to help refugees and confront her past in the profound and wonderful latest from Alameddine ( The Angel of History ), a meditation on loss, resilience, and love. Born in Beirut but long settled in the U.S., Mina Simpson is trans and estranged from every member of her family except her older brother Mazen, who flies to the island to assist her. Soon, their paths cross that of a blocked Lebanese writer. The chapters alternate between Mina’s account of her time on Lesbos, where she treats a Syrian woman named Sumaiya who is dying from liver cancer and pleads with Mina not to tell her family, and second-person narration directed at the writer, who encouraged Mina to write about the refugees because he didn’t feel up to the task (“You weren’t able to find the right words even after numerous sessions on your psychiatrist’s couch,” Mina narrates). Confronted by the pain so many refugees describe, Mina recalls the lost world of her own childhood and bonds with Sumaiya over their shared desire to protect their families from the truth. As Mina and her writer-interlocutor are each consumed by the effort to communicate the horror of the refugee experience, Alameddine crafts a wise, deeply moving story that can still locate humor in the pit of hell (Mina, agreeing to let the writer tell her story, jokes, “Whatever you do ... don’t fucking call it A Lebanese Lesbian in Lesbos ”). This is a triumph. Agent: Nicole Aragi, Aragi, Inc. (Sept.) This review has been updated to clarify a plot point. It also has been corrected,a previous version incorrectly stated the character Sumaiya suffered from lung cancer. "

Language: English

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Format: 354 Seiten

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 9780802157805 , 0802157807

Content: "Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis"--

Note: 2109

Language: English

Keywords: Flüchtlingslager ; Peloponnes ; Fiktionale Darstellung

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Format: xx, 404 Seiten , 23 cm

Edition: Second edition

ISBN: 9781557289124 , 1557289123

Note: Bibliographie: Seite 401-404 , I. First generation: The new world , Airport , In-country , Easy to say , How we are bound , Edge of rock , Manar of Hama , Salad lady , Coal bin , My Elizabeth , And what else? , Stage directions for an extended conversation , The wedding night , Distances , Ohio , Maryam and Marisa , It's not about that , How I became my mother's daughter , Mariam , Sugar in Amman , He had dreamed of returning , First snow , The fifty-foot woman , The Lebanon-Detroit Express , The American way

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: USA ; Literatur ; Prosa ; Araber ; Anthologie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 310 Seiten

ISBN: 9780393323566 , 0393323560

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

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Format: 660 p , 24 cm

ISBN: 8426416837 , 9788426416834 , 9789708101523 , 9708101524

Series Statement: Lumen narrativa

Note: Translation of: Hakawati , Includes bibliographical references (p. [659]-660) , Text in Spanish

Language: Spanish

URL: Cover

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Format: 304 Seiten , 21 cm

Edition: 1. Auflage

ISBN: 9783863002572 , 3863002571

Content: Jacob, ein homosexueller Schriftsteller libanesich-jemenitischer Abstammung, sitzt im Wartezimmer einer psychiatrischen Klink in San Francisco, weil er Stimmen hört und ihn Ängste und Erinnerungen plagen.

Note: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 9783863002657 (ISBN)

Language: German

Author information: Bartholomae, Joachim