Author: Rabih Alameddine

A Washington Independent Review of Books, Literary Hub, and Shelf Awareness Best Book of the YearAn Unnecessary Woman won the California Book Award...

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION'A beautiful, well paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian'Favorite novel of the ye...

''A profoundly beautiful novel that infolds the political with the personal in unexpected and new ways . . . An extraordinary book'' Neel Mukherjee...

Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her fa...

'Stunning' New York Times Book Review'Here it comes, the book of the year, on its own magic carpet. No book this bewitching has ever felt so import...

'In this delightful novel, Alameddine takes his greatest risks yet, and succeeds brilliantly, in a work that while marked by radical formal innovat...