by Rabih Alameddine · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426404275
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«La mujer de papel» is the contemporary fiction novel by Rabih Alameddine, published by Lumen in paperback, with 320 pages, in Spanish.
The novel follows Aaliya, a woman in her seventies who lives in an old apartment in Beirut and has made reading and translation her refuge. Through her memory pass the war, an imposed marriage and family abandonment, while books, quotes and writing give her comfort and her own identity.
The novel was originally published as 'An Unnecessary Woman' (2013) and won the Femina Prize 2016. The Spanish translation is by Gemma Rovira Ortega. It is part of Lumen's Narrativa collection.
A read intended for lovers of stories about books and for followers of contemporary fiction with memorable female characters.
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.
