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title: "THE ANGEL OF HISTORY"
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# THE ANGEL OF HISTORY

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- **What is this?** THE ANGEL OF HISTORY
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''Here is a book, full of story, unrepentantly political at every level. At a time when many western writers seem to be in retreat from saying anything that could be construed as political, Alameddine says it all, shamelessly, gloriously and, realised like his Satan, in the most stylish of forms'' t he Guardian Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana''a, Stockholm, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives. ''A profoundly beautiful novel that infolds the political with the personal in unexpected and new ways . . . An extraordinary book'' Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman, ''Books of the Year 2016'' ''His stories take the reader into the labyrinth that is the mind . . . The Angel of History is digressive and daring'' t he Economist ''Alameddine has created a scintillating, original work whose moral complexity and detail of observation are wholly contemporary and entirely his own'' Spectator

Review: Four Stars - Product reached in good condition.
Review: Not an easy read, but worth the effort - Such an important novel. Not an easy read, but worth the effort.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #543,692 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #12,821 in Classic Fiction (Books) #33,131 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 134 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars
*by L***N on 12 October 2017*

Product reached in good condition.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not an easy read, but worth the effort
*by I***R on 10 April 2018*

Such an important novel. Not an easy read, but worth the effort.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Magnificent
*by P***A on 12 January 2020*

An acute , deep and moving elegy about ethnic displacement , poetry , pain and friendship. Written , as always, by Mr Alameddine , with his terse prose, it's a compassionated insights into the tragedies and fleeting joys of human souls.

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