by Rabih Alameddine · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490322260
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«La mujer de papel» is the novel by Rabih Alameddine, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Aaliya, a seventy-year-old woman, lives in an old apartment in Beirut and tells her life story. Orphaned of her father and repudiated by a husband she never loved, she has devoted her years to reading and translating great works while war ravaged the city. Taking refuge in books, she seeks in literature the love no one gave her, in a tribute to the marginalized.
Winner of the Femina Prize 2016, translated from English by Gemma Rovira Ortega. Edition from the Best Seller collection of DEBOLSILLO. The author is known for «El contador de historias».
For readers of literary fiction who enjoy stories about books and authors like Javier Marías or Antonio Muñoz Molina.
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.
