The Angel of History A Novel
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Verlag:Atlantic Monthly Press
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Erscheinungsdatum
26.02.2020
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Atlantic Monthly PressSeitenzahl
304 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9780802190116
A gay poet is haunted by war and the AIDs crisis in this "sprawling fever dream of a novel" by the Dos Passos Prize-winning author of
An Unnecessary Woman (NPR.org).
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic,The Angel of Historyfollows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life. His memories take him from hismaternal upbringing inan Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under theaegisof his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS.
Haunted by an alluring, sassySatan,who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past, and by dour, frigidDeath,who urges him to forget and give up on life,Jacob is also attended to by fourteen saints.With Jacob recalling his life in Cairo, Beirut,Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco, Alameddinegives us a charged philosophicalportrayal of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is aprofound story that "marks the triumph of memory over oblivion" (
Bookforum).
An Unnecessary Woman (NPR.org).
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic,The Angel of Historyfollows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life. His memories take him from hismaternal upbringing inan Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under theaegisof his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS.
Haunted by an alluring, sassySatan,who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past, and by dour, frigidDeath,who urges him to forget and give up on life,Jacob is also attended to by fourteen saints.With Jacob recalling his life in Cairo, Beirut,Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco, Alameddinegives us a charged philosophicalportrayal of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is aprofound story that "marks the triumph of memory over oblivion" (
Bookforum).
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