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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a "beautiful and absorbing" novel of latelife crisis (The New York Times).
Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900page avantgarde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventytwo, should she be taking on such a project? Not that Aailiya fears dying. Women in...
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