Amin Maalouf
Author
Series
Publisher
La nave di Teseo
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Italiano
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Description
Luglio 1096: fa molto caldo sotto le mura di Nicea. All'ombra dei fichi, nei giardini fioriti, circolano notizie inquietanti: una truppa formata da cavalieri, fanti, ma anche donne e bambini, marcia su Costantinopoli. Si dice che portino, cucite sulla spalla, delle croci in tessuto e che vengano a sterminare i musulmani fin dentro Gerusalemme. Resteranno due secoli in Terra Santa, saccheggiando e massacrando in nome del loro dio. Un'incursione barbara...
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English
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One night, a phone rings in Paris. Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago. Exiled in France, Adam has been leading a peaceful life as a respected historian, but back among the milk-white mountains of the East his past soon catches up with him. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life -...
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English
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The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. The United States is on the verge of losing all moral credibility. The European Union is in the process of breaking apart. The Arab world is embroiled in crisis. Thus divided and lacking solidarity, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment...
5) Origins
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Language
English
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Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning, intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth, in the mountains of Lebanon and in Havana, Cuba-Origins recounts the family history of the generation of Maalouf's paternal grandfather, Boutros Maalouf.
Maalouf sets out to discover the truth about why Boutros, a poet and educator in Lebanon,...
Author
Publisher
Bernard Grasset
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
"Il faut prêter attention aux analyses d'Amin Maalouf : ses 1 intuitions se révèlent des prédictions, tant il semble avoir la prescience des grands bouleversements de l'Histoire. Il s'inquiétait il y a vingt ans de la montée des "identités meurtrières" ; il y a dix ans du "dérèglement du monde". Il nous explique aujourd'hui pourquoi toutes les aires de civilisation sont menacées de naufrage. Depuis plus d'un demi-siècle, l'auteur observe...
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Series
Publisher
Interlink Books
Language
English
Description
The story of Samarkand is woven around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, from its creation by the poet and sage in eleventh-century Persia to its loss when the Titanic sank in 1912. Unwittingly involved in a brawl on the streets of Samarkand, Omar Khayyam is brought before a local judge who recognizes his genius as a poet and gives him a blank book in which to inscribe his verses. Thus the head of a great poet is saved...
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Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Alec, a press artist with an impressive track record, settles on a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean. He has little contact with his neighbor, a solitary woman who wrote a cult book years ago, before withdrawing from public life. That is, until a gigantic power failure cuts them off from the rest of the world, and all of a sudden they find themselves dependent on each other. The world appears to be on the brink of nuclear war and the collapse of...
Author
Series
Livre de poche volume 14424
Publisher
Grasset
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
Français
Description
Echelles du Levant, cʹest le nom quʹon donnait autrefois à ce chapelet de cités marchandes par lesquelles les voyageurs dʹEurope accédaient à lʹOrient. Lieux de brassage, univers précaires que lʹHistoire avait lentement façonnés avant de les démolir. Le héros de ce roman, Ossyane, est lʹun de ces hommes au destin détourné. De lʹagonie de lʹEmpire Ottoman aux deux guerres mondiales et aux tragédies qui, aujourdʹhui encore, déchirent...
Author
Publisher
Bernard Grasset
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
"Une guerre dévastatrice vient d'éclater au coeur de l'Europe, qui ravive les pires traumatismes du passé ; un bras de fer oppose l'Occident à la Chine et à la Russie... Il est clair qu'un bouleversement majeur est en train de se produire, qui remet en cause les fondements mêmes de notre civilisation. Chacun en a conscience, mais nul n'a encore donné à cette crise la profondeur de champ qu'elle mérite. Amin Maalouf remonte ici aux origines...
Author
Publisher
G. Braziller
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In the 19th Century, a sheik's son is forced to flee Lebanon because of a power struggle. He finds refuge in Cyprus and plots against his enemies with the aid of the French and the British. A tale of palace intrigues by the author of Leo Africanus.
Author
Series
Livre de poche) volume 13891
Publisher
Librairie générale française
Pub. Date
2010, c1993
Language
Français
