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 Maalouf.Maalouf sets out to discover the truth about why Boutros, a poet and educator in Lebanon, traveled across the globe to rescue his younger brother, Gabrayel, who had settled in Havana. What follows is the gripping excavation of a family's hidden past. Maalouf is an energetic and amiable narr…
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Weitere Autoren: Temerson, Catherine (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-5363-4
- EAN: 9781429953634
- Produktnummer: 22466595
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'989 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: Includes a Family Tree
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Amin Maalouf; Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson
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