The First Century After Beatrice

ISBN-13: 9780349105994 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str.

Amin Maalouf

Opis

Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains a few of these beans, he worries that the world has entered a critical phase of its history.