Origins
A Memoir
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. Why did Boutros, a poet and educator in Lebanon, travel across the globe to rescue his younger brother, Gebrayel, who had settled in Havana? Maalouf is an energetic and amiable narrator, illuminating the more obscure corners of late Ottoman nationalism, the psychology of Lebanese sectarianism, an…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-53176-8
- EAN: 9780374531768
- Produktnummer: 16706011
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 418 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.4 cm 639 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 639
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Amin Maalouf; Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson
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