In 2014, Rabih Alameddine published a novel called The Unnecessary Woman. “I think we lose something once we get accepted,” he said. The narrative arc traces Jacob’s life history, but it also devotes substantial portions to a dialogue between Satan and Death. While The Angel of History is not precisely autobiographical, Alameddine says Jacob’s anger began as his own. Alameddine also wrote this book in part because he was interested in the way that American collective memory just plain repressed the Aids crisis.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2016 18:45 UTC