Author : Rabih Alameddine
Genre : Fiction
Publisher : Grove Press
Rabih Alameddine’s beautiful new novel is ostensibly about an elderly woman living alone in her Beirut apartment. Once married but quickly divorced, Aaliya appears to be, as the title says, An Unnecessary Woman. But Aaliya’s solitude is filled with incident and wonder. She lives in a city whose very name is synonymous with conflict and disorder. In Beirut it’s perfectly normal for a spinster to don a pink tracksuit and pick up an AK-47 in defence of her abode.
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