The Angel of History
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Yemeni-born poet Jacob 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.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: 294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780802125767
080212576X
SUBJECTS
AIDS (Disease) -- Fiction.
Recluses -- Beirut -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Yemenis -- Fiction.
Gay men -- Fiction.
Devil -- Fiction.
Death (Personification) -- Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.