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I, The Divine by Rabih Alameddine - ISBN: 9781472154798
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A woman’s life in first chapters: war, love, loss, survival.

I, The Divine

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    320 pages

  • Release Date

    11 June 2019

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Summary

‘In this delightful novel, Alameddine takes his greatest risks yet, and succeeds brilliantly, in a work that while marked by radical formal innovation, manages to be warm, sad, funny and moving’

Named by her grandfather after ‘the Divine’ Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Nour El-Din grows up in Beirut against the tense background of civil war. But the young Sarah finds pleasure in the everyday - her first cigarette, first kiss, seeking revenge on her tight-lipped stepmother. Th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472154798
ISBN-10:1472154797
Author:Rabih Alameddine
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Corsair
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:11 June 2019
Weight:244g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 30mm
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Critics Review

A perfect novel…Alameddine is one of the greatest living writers working in English.

A perfect novel…Alameddine is one of the greatest living writers working in English. - Sarah Schulman, Literary Hub

A perfect novel…Alameddine is one of the greatest living writers working in English. - Sarah Schulman, Literary Hub

Alameddine’s new novel unfolds like a secret… creating a tale…humorous and heartbreaking and always real - Los Angeles Times

Wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing - Amy Tan

Moving and memorable - Boston Globe

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. In this delightful novel, he takes his greatest risks yet, and succeeds brilliantly, in a work that while marked by radical formal innovation, manages to be warm, sad, funny and moving. - Michael Chabon

About The Author

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.

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