Rabih Alameddine

The Angel of History

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Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from 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 Franciso at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of aluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by fourteen saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut, Sana'a, Stockholm and San Francisco, Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

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 Francisco and Beirut.

Preis: CHF 32.50
Sprache: Englisch
Art: Broschiertes Buch
Erschienen: 2016
Verlag: Little, Brown Book
ISBN: 978-1-4721-5236-7
Reihe: Corsair
Masse: 295 S.

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