by Rabih Alameddine · Bompiani · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845278280
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«Io, la Divina» is the contemporary novel by Rabih Alameddine, published by Bompiani in paperback (334 pages, in Italian).
Sarah Nour el-Din, nicknamed «La Divina» by her grandfather in homage to Sarah Bernhardt, grows up in Beirut during the civil war. Despite everything, she retains an enormous zest for life. Her account reviews the transgressions of adolescence and the setbacks of adult life, always true to herself.
Originally published as «I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters» (2001), this 2015 Italian edition includes the translation by Licia Vighi.
For readers of literary fiction and narrative set in Lebanon, with a female protagonist who spans several decades of her life.
Rabih Alameddine is a Lebanese painter and writer. His 2021 novel The Wrong End of the Telescope won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He also won the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible.
