First Title value, for Searching:
The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)
First Author value, for Searching:
Alameddine, Rabih, author.
Format:
Libros
Abstract:
In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and "the neighborhood homosexual," Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, views her son's desire for privacy as a personal affront. She demands to know every detail of Raja's work life and love life, boundaries be damned. When Raja receives an invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America, the timing couldn't be better. It arrives on the heels of a series of personal and national disasters that have left Raja longing for peace and quiet away from his mother and the heartache of Lebanon. But what at first seems a stroke of good fortune soon leads Raja to recount and relive the very disasters and past betrayals he wishes to forget.-- Publisher's description.
Tema:
| Philosophy teachers -- Fiction. |
| Gay men -- Fiction. |
| Mothers and sons -- Fiction. |
| Kidnapping victims -- Fiction. |
| Stockholm syndrome -- Fiction. |
| Recollection (Psychology) -- Fiction. |
| Boundaries (Psychology) -- Fiction. |
| Mères et fils -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Victimes d'enlèvement -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Syndrome de Stockholm -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Rappel (Psychologie) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Frontières du moi -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction. |
| Domestic fiction. |
| Gay fiction. |
| Fiction. |
| Novels. |
| Romans. |
| Romans homosexuels. |
Summary:
In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and "the neighborhood homosexual," Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, views her son's desire for privacy as a personal affront. She demands to know every detail of Raja's work life and love life, boundaries be damned. When Raja receives an invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America, the timing couldn't be better. It arrives on the heels of a series of personal and national disasters that have left Raja longing for peace and quiet away from his mother and the heartache of Lebanon. But what at first seems a stroke of good fortune soon leads Raja to recount and relive the very disasters and past betrayals he wishes to forget.--
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