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The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)

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In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and "the neighborhood homosexual," Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, views her son's desire for privacy as a pers...

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Main Author: Alameddine, Rabih (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Book Discussion Kit Kits Book Discussion Kit
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, [2025]
Edition:First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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Philosophy teachers > Fiction.
Gay men > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Kidnapping victims > Fiction.
Stockholm syndrome > Fiction.
Recollection (Psychology) > Fiction.
Boundaries (Psychology) > Fiction.
Beirut (Lebanon) > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Gay fiction.
Book discussion group kit.
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