Balthasar's Odyssey

ISBN-13: 9780099452089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 400 str.

Amin Maalouf

Opis

In the Koran, there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of the apocalyptic year of the beast, 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant embarks on a quest to find the answer. He sets out on a journey that will take him across the breadth of the civilized world.

Recenzje

His is a voice which Europe cannot afford to ignore. Guardian

O autorze

Amin Maalouf's fiction includes Leo the African, Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Prix Goncourt, Samarkand and Ports of Call. He is also the author of an acclaimed scholarly work, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, as well as the much admired essay, 'On Identity'.