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A review by aguaa
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
5.0
beautiful! painful! critical! satan is so funny + the saints' descriptions!!! iconic
"when the day came for me to leave, i carried a small potted plant in a paper bag, a sage for my tummy aches, its green leaves with goose bumps peeking above the top of the bag, an old arab tradition, travel with earth, with home mud, stay rooted to your land. palestinian refugees kept keys to their houses for generations, hidden in boxes, in kerchiefs, their adult children's children not knowing what the houses looked like or where they were, yet they cherished the keys, and in a poem bertolt brecht compared himself to a man who carried a brick to show how beautiful his house once was, and the nice lebanese stewardess who watched over me took the sage away when i boarded and forgot to return it when she delivered me to my father."
"not only do we drink from the black river, we drop bodies into it as well, objects we once loved, tools we once used, rusted treasure litters the bottom of lethe."
"when the day came for me to leave, i carried a small potted plant in a paper bag, a sage for my tummy aches, its green leaves with goose bumps peeking above the top of the bag, an old arab tradition, travel with earth, with home mud, stay rooted to your land. palestinian refugees kept keys to their houses for generations, hidden in boxes, in kerchiefs, their adult children's children not knowing what the houses looked like or where they were, yet they cherished the keys, and in a poem bertolt brecht compared himself to a man who carried a brick to show how beautiful his house once was, and the nice lebanese stewardess who watched over me took the sage away when i boarded and forgot to return it when she delivered me to my father."
"not only do we drink from the black river, we drop bodies into it as well, objects we once loved, tools we once used, rusted treasure litters the bottom of lethe."