"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in...
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am n...
This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.
This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not reco...
Ossyane, a young Lebanese man and his Jewish wife Clara return to live in Haifa after World War II. Just as war breaks out in the new-born state of Israel, Ossayne is forced to go to Beirut. The border with Israel closes behind him and he becomes separated from his wife with tragic consequences.
Ossyane, a young Lebanese man and his Jewish wife Clara return to live in Haifa after World War II. Just as war breaks out in the new-born state of Is...
The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon's troubled past, by tracing the life of Tanios, a child of the mountains, who one day in 1840 disappeared from the rock that now bears his name.
The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon's troubled past, by tracing the ...
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: 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...
Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter ...
Der international erfolgreiche Romancier und Essayist Amin Maalouf, geboren im Libanon und seit vielen Jahren in Frankreich ansässig, ein "Wanderer zwischen den Welten", beschreibt, anschließend an seinen vor zehn Jahren erschienenen Essay Mörderische Identitäten (edition suhrkamp 2159), die krisenhafte "Entregelung" in ethischer und intellektueller, geopolitischer, ökonomischer und "klimatischer" Hinsicht , von der der Westen ebenso wie der Nahe Osten aus unterschiedlichen Gründen betroffen sind. Wo es für Autoren wie Samuel P. Huntington, aber auch Stefan Weidner (Manual für den...
Der international erfolgreiche Romancier und Essayist Amin Maalouf, geboren im Libanon und seit vielen Jahren in Frankreich ansässig, ein "Wanderer z...
Amin Maalouf, in Frankreich lebender arabischer Christ, beobachtet die mrderischen Auswirkungen von Fundamentalismus und ngstlicher, reflexhafterAusgrenzung des Anderen. Sein Essay ist ein Appell an Toleranz, Integration und Pluralitt.
Amin Maalouf, in Frankreich lebender arabischer Christ, beobachtet die mrderischen Auswirkungen von Fundamentalismus und ngstlicher, reflexhafterAusgr...
