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An Unnecessary Woman : A Novel by Rabih Alameddine is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is An Unnecessary Woman : A Novel about?
<p><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST</b></p> <p><b>A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a "beautiful and absorbing" novel of late-life crisis (<i>The New York Times</i>).</b></p> <p>Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she be taking on such a project? Not
Who reads An Unnecessary Woman : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rabih Alameddine
- Publisher
- New York: Grove Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802122940
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Middle East
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (6,020 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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