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DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of\n\nThe Angel of History\n\nfrom Atlantic Monthly 
 Press\n\nThe incendiary new novel by National Book Award finalist Rabih 
 Alameddine, about an Arab American poet, whose adult life in San Francisco 
 spans the AIDS decades, and his hilarious and heartbreaking struggle to 
 remember and forget the events of an astonishing life. Following the 
 critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine 
 delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of political and social 
 upheaval.\n\nSet over the course of one night in the waiting room of a 
 psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he 
 revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an 
 Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy 
 father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of 
 AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan, who taunts 
 Jacob to remember his painful past, and dour, frigid Death, 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, Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrayal of 
 a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound and winning story of the war 
 between memory and oblivion with which we wrestle every day of our 
 life.\n\nRabih Alameddine is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman; 
 I, the Divine; Koolaids; The Hakawati; and the story collection, The 
 Perv.\n\nWhat has been said about Rabih Alameddine:\n\n"Rabih Alameddine is 
 one of our most daring writers—daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or 
 racy, but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer."—Michael 
 Chabon\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790916.php
SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790916.php
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