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An Unnecessary Woman

(2014)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2014 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist)
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee)

One of the Middle East's most celebrated writers, Rabih Alameddine, discusses his novel An Unnecessary Woman, an intimate and moving portrait of a reclusive book-loving 72-year-old Lebanese woman who views her complicated past through the lens of her favorite works of literature.

In conversation with Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge). Mia Dillon will read an excerpt.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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