Rabih Alameddine

In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold....

Enter the world of the contemporary Lebanese men and women whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war, conflicted identity, and survival....

An enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old "unnecessary" woman.Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books....

Escuchad. Dejad que os guíe en un viaje hacia los confines de la imaginación. Dejad que os cuente una historia....

“Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.” —NPR From National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother. In a tiny...