· PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . Talk about writer's block; Sarah Nour El-Din never manages to get past the first chapter of the memoir she aspires to pen. Alameddine's innovative novel collects several dozen of (fictional) Sarah's aborted attempts, a structural gimmick that works to create a revealing composite of a character who can't seem to finish her own story/5(4). 7 rows · · Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids, I, the Divine, and The Hakawati, the Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc. This really is a novel in first chapters, as a young Lebanese woman tries to tell her story. She attempts it from different starting point and in different voices. The reality of why she is who she is is part ethnic origin and part violent experience/5(33).
Alameddine Re-creates a Place Where Educated People Live Under the Shadow of Ancient Curses. The discomfort of families. Maya Jaggi on an accomplished tale of traumatic lives spanning Beirut and America, Rabih Alameddine's I, The Divine. A book subtitled "a novel in first chapters" risks being taken as a gimmick. An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video An illustration of an audio speaker. the divine: a novel in first chapters Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. a novel in first chapters by Alameddine, Rabih. Publication date Topics. Named after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir, sometimes a novel, always fascinatingly.
A NOVEL IN FIRST CHAPTERS. by Rabih Alameddine ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, Incidents from the life of a Lebanese-American artist—each of them vivid, passionate, and briskly told—that still never quite cohere into a unified whole. The problem is Alameddine’s (The Perv, , etc.) narrative strategy: she tells her protagonist Sarah’s story in a succession of first chapters, variously labeled “Chapter One,” “Title Page,” and so on. Watch an interview with Hayely S. Kirk · Read a free chapter of DIVINE CLEMENTINE I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters | Rabih Alameddine | Book Named by her grandfather after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is feisty, rebellious, individualistic - a person determined to make of Rabih Alameddine's “The Hakawati. This really is a novel in first chapters, as a young Lebanese woman tries to tell her story. She attempts it from different starting point and in different voices. The reality of why she is who she is is part ethnic origin and part violent experience.
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