Annotation
Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, author-on-the-rise Alameddine (The Hakawati) celebrates the power and the glory of literature while showing us one woman's vibrant interior life. Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in Beirut, yearly translating a new book she loves into Arabic even as her thoughts range over her own life and the chaotic life of her city, past and present.
Awards
2014 National Book Awards