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The Angel of History: A Novel

by Rabih Alameddine

2021-01-03 05:28:59

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Winner of the Northern California Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, and the Arab American Book Award for FictionA sprawling fever dream of a novel, by turns beautiful and horrifying, and impossible to forget . . . When Alameddine... Read more
Winner of the Northern California Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, and the Arab American Book Award for FictionA sprawling fever dream of a novel, by turns beautiful and horrifying, and impossible to forget . . . When Alameddine aims for the heart, he doesn''t miss, and he hits hard . . . The Angel of History isn''t just a brilliant novel, it''s a heartfelt cry in the dark, a reminder that we can never forget our past, the friends and family we''ve loved and lost. It''s a raw love letter from those who survived a plague to those who didn''t." - NPR.orgFrom National Book Award finalist Rabih Alameddine, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born Jacob as he revisits his life over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic. We see 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. All the while, Jacob is taunted mercilessly by the presence of alluring Satan, who urges remember his painful past and dour Death who urges him to forget and give up. Set in Cairo and Beirut;Sana''a, Stockholm, and San Francisco; this is a profound and winning story of the war between memory and oblivion and a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of deep political and social upheaval."A remarkable novel, a commentary of love and death, creativity and spirituality, memory and survival . . . brilliant . . . [it] hits an emotional nerve." - Los Angeles Review of Books "Laced with literary references . . . a kaleidoscopic storytelling style, and philosophical humor." - New Yorker " Less

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File size8.25 X 5.5 X 1.05 in
Print pages304
PublisherGrove/Atlantic
Publication date October 14, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780802125767
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Rabih Alameddine
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Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids, and I, the Divine, The Hakawati, the story collection, The Perv, and most recently, An Unnecessary Woman. He divides his time between San Francis...

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