Yo, la divina

Synopsis of Yo, la divina

«Yo, la divina» is the novel by Rabih Alameddine, published by Seix Barral in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).

Sarah Nour el-Din wants to tell her life and turns it into a mosaic of memoirs, theatre and novel; she restarts the narrative endlessly. Daughter of an American mother and a Lebanese father, she has a childhood marked by the war in Beirut, a divorce and a stepmother; from her exile in the United States, she blends humour and realism to speak of memory and identity.

The original work in English, «I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters», was published in 2001.

For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in memory, identity and experiences of exile.