THE LIBRARY

An Unnecessary Woman  is a tale painted on the backdrop of a childless, alone seventy-two year old Aaliyah who recalls from an early age that she was never loved by those around her, and in order to fill that aching, gaping hole where love should have been she sneaked off to literature. Aaliyah has been translating literature over the course of her life to the local language and the book opens with Aaliyah completing the translation of  Austerlitz  by W. G. Sebald, and the dilemma that follows: of choosing which book to translate next. When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade that separates me from the book. I try to be involved. I am Raskalnikov. I am K. I am Humbert and Lolita.  I am you. If you read these pages and think I’m the way I am because I lived through a civil war, you can’t feel my pain. If you believe you’re not like me because one woman, and only one, Hannah, chose to be my friend, then you