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In conversation with Maryam Baig, DMARabih Alameddine’s 2025 National Book Award-winning novel features Raja, a 63-year-old beloved high school philosophy teacher and “the neighborhood homosexual,” who relishes books, meditative walks, and solitude. An invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America offers Raja a well-timed opportunity for distance from his meddlesome, octogenarian mother with whom he shares a tiny apartment in Beirut. Told in Raja’s irresistible and wickedly funny voice, this is the unforgettable story of a singular life and its absurdities—a tale of mistakes, self-discovery, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother.
Rabih Alameddine is award-winning author of several novels, including "The Wrong End of the Telescope," "An Unnecessary Woman," and "Koolaids." He has won the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He also received a Lannan Award in 2021.
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