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005			20180722214717.0
008			130705s2013 nyu 000 1 eng d
019			_a852239613
020			_a0802122140
020			_a9780802122148
035			_a(OCoLC)852223469 _z(OCoLC)852239613
040			_aBTCTA _beng _cBTCTA _dYDXCP _dBDX _dDYJ _dWIM _dUPZ _dIEP _dOCLCO _dIH9 _dVP@ _dNFG
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049			_aNFCB
099			_aAlameddi _aRabih
100	1		_aAlameddine, Rabih, _eauthor. _959297
245	1	3	_aAn unnecessary woman / _cRabih Alameddine.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bGrove Press, _c[2013]
300			_a291 pages ; _c22 cm
520			_a"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" -- _cfrom publisher's web site.
650		0	_aRecluses _zLebanon _zBeirut _vFiction. _9243517
650		0	_aWomen _zLebanon _zBeirut _vFiction. _9243518
651		0	_aBeirut (Lebanon) _vFiction. _9243519
942			_cBOOK _026
994			_aC0 _bNFG
997			_aAlameddi Rabih
998			_a007474492
999			_c163923 _d163923