5. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Told through the eyes of an ‘obsessive introvert’ Aliyah, an old unmarried woman in a society that shuns women like her. Aliyah finds solace in her solitude and most of all through her love for the written word; every year Aliyah translates one of her favourite books intro Arabic. The book begins with an old woman turning her hair blue after she overhears her neighbours commenting about the whiteness of her hair, and when it ends it leaves us deeply satisfied and wiser than we were before. This is a must read and the book that made me feel like I was ignorant when it came to literature.
“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.”
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