The Angel of History
A Novel. Nominiert: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2017
(Sprache: Englisch)
The new novel by National Book Award finalist, Rabih Alameddine, about an Arab American poet, whose adult life in San Francisco spans the AIDS decades, and his hilarious and heartbreaking struggle to remember and forget the events of an astonishing life
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The new novel by National Book Award finalist, Rabih Alameddine, about an Arab American poet, whose adult life in San Francisco spans the AIDS decades, and his hilarious and heartbreaking struggle to remember and forget the events of an astonishing life
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?There are many ways to break someone's heart, but Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life."?Yiyun LiFollowing the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval.
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives.
?Rabih Alameddine is one our most daring writers?daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy, but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer."?Michael Chabon
Autoren-Porträt von Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman ; I, the Divine ; Koolaids ; The Hakawati ; and the story collection, The Perv .
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rabih Alameddine
- 2016, 304 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 21,8 cm, Leinen, Englisch
- Verlag: Ingram Publisher ServicesBooks
- ISBN-10: 080212576X
- ISBN-13: 9780802125767
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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