“William Blake, Jacob's Ladder”
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Aaliya Saleh 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 favourite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read - by anyone. This breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman follows Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Colourful 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 ageing 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 prodigiously gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a magnificent rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East.
“William Blake, Jacob's Ladder”
Kawase Hasui, Mount Unzen, Hizen (c 1927)
Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese 1753-1806), The courtesan Okita of the Naniwaya adjusting her coiffure in a mirror
Femeia de hârtie de Rabih Alameddine-recenzie Titlul original: An Unecessary Woman Editura: Polirom Număr de pagini: 280 Nota: 10+ Rabih Alameddine (A
smart poetry
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By National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about...
“Mary Delany (1700-1788) botanical 'paper-mosaicks'/Collage”
Felix Vallotton, La Grève blanche, Vasouy, 1913,
Pierre Bonnard, "Autumn: The Fruit Pickers" (L'Automne, la cueillette des fruits), 1912, Oil on canvas, 143" x136"