I, the Divine

A Novel in First Chapters

Rabih Alameddine (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2001
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-04209-2 (ISBN)

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The most unforgettable character who has ever triedagain and againto tell her story. Named by her grandfather after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, the Lebanese-American artist Sarah Nour El-Din tells her story. She begins a memoir, a noveland abandons every attempt in the course of the first chapter. What emerges from these fictional fragments is extraordinarya woman, and a life, perhaps more real than any we have known in literature. Raised in a hybrid family shaped by divorce and remarriage, and by Beirut in wartime, Sarah finds a fragile peace in self-imposed exile in the United States. Her vibrant character has survived rape, her mother's suicide, her sister's madness, and the impossibility of escaping her family. Her extraordinary dignity is supported by her best friend, a grown-up son, occasional sensual pleasures, and her determination to tell her own story. Passionate in her loves and even in her failures, Sarah Nour El-Din will walk off the page into the reader's life, even as she struggles to compose her own.

Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids, I, the Divine, and The Hakawati, the story collection The Perv, and most recently, An Unnecessary Woman. He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.10.2001
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 218 mm
Gewicht	511 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-393-04209-X / 039304209X
ISBN-13	978-0-393-04209-2 / 9780393042092
Zustand	Neuware