The Wrong End of the Telescope [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
Alameddine, Rabih
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Add to basketSold by MostlySignedBooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since March 5, 2021
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketVery good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author in English and Arabic on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has mild edgewear and crease on the spine. Book has shelfwear to the bottom of the spine, a bumped corner, smudges on the outsides of the boards (covered by the dust jacket), and toning to the edges of the pageblock. By the Arab American Book Award-, Lambda Literary Award-, California Book Award-, and Guggenheim Fellowship-winning author of "The Hakawati" and "An Unnecessary Woman". Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION
By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.
Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them.
Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of the novels The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I, the Divine; Koolaids; and the story collection, The Perv. In 2019, he won the Dos Passos Prize.
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