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Title: Les Vies de papier (French Edition)
Publisher: French and European Publications Inc
Publication Date: 2016
Language: French
ISBN 10: 2365692060
ISBN 13: 9782365692069
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.014 pounds

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Aaliya Saleh, 72 ans, les cheveux bleus, a toujours refus� les carcans impos�s par la soci�t� libanaise. � l'ombre des murs anciens de son appartement, elle s'appr�te pour son rituel pr�f�r�. Chaque ann�e, le 1er janvier, apr�s avoir allum� deux bougies pour Walter Benjamin, cette femme irr�v�rencieuse et un brin obsessionnelle commence � traduire en arabe l'une des uvres de ses romanciers pr�f�r�s : Kafka, Pessoa ou Nabokov.
� la fois refuge et " plaisir aveugle ", la litt�rature est l'air qu'elle respire, celui qui la fait vibrer comme cet opus de Chopin qu'elle ne cesse d'�couter. C'est eentour�e de livres, de cartons remplis de papiers, de feuilles volantes de ses traductions qu'Aaliya se sent vivante.
Cheminant dans les rues, Aaliya se souvient ; de l'odeur de sa librairie, des conversations avec son amie Hannah, de ses lectures � la lueur de la bougie tandis que la guerre faisait rage, de la ville en feu, de l'impr�visibilit� de Beyrouth.

Roman �blouissant � l'�rudition joueuse, c�l�brant la beaut� et la d�tresse de Beyrouth, Les Vies de papier est une v�ritable d�claration d'amour � la litt�rature.

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Rabih Alameddine est peintre et romancier. N� � Amman en Jordanie de parents libanais, il partage aujourd'hui son temps entre San Francisco et Beyrouth. Son roman Les Vies de papier a �t� finaliste du National Book Award 2014 et du National Book Critics Circle Award 2015, et laur�at du California Book Award 2015. Son pr�c�dent roman, Hakawati, avait paru en France en 2009 (Flammarion).

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