The Wrong End of the Telescope
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · 2022 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2022 | Winner |
About This Book
Mina, a Lebanese American transgender doctor, volunteers at the refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos during the 2015 European refugee crisis. In a few intense days, she forms an unexpected connection with a Syrian mother dying of cancer. A darkly comic novel about exile, medicine, language, and the limits of humanitarian empathy. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.
About the Author
Rabih AlameddineLebanese-American
Rabih Alameddine is a Lebanese-American novelist and painter. Born in Amman, Jordan, in 1959, he grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon and studied engineering at UCLA and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, before turning to literature. He is one of the most important and distinctive voices in contemporary Arab American fiction. Read more →
