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Item Details
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ORIGINS
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| By: |
Amin Maalouf |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1447271432 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781447271437 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
11 September, 2014 |
| Edition: |
Main Market Ed. |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
A resonant, intensely personal exploration of identity and belonging, by a writer in search of home |
| Synopsis: |
`We are, and always will be, wanderers who have lost their way . . .' When a trunk of family letters gives Amin Maalouf the opportunity to trace his past, he finds himself - having never before asked questions - transfixed by the stories of his ancestors. Starting in the mountains of Lebanon and taking him across the sea to Havana, his history is one of restlessness and exile: of the search for identity, of dramatic emigrations, and of revolutions espoused in the dying years of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. The result is an exquisite memoir, a book that finds drama in the most personal of tales, pathos in the grandest of gestures, and an understanding that the most nomadic of families can also epitomize home. `Origins is many things: an introduction to Lebanon's complex history, the end of Ottoman Empire through Arab eyes, and an intimate account of diasporic identity. Exquisitely tempered' Independent `Maalouf's far-seeing and hospitable worldview is presided over, like that of his grandfather, by "the angel of reason", and in Origins he tells a story he has painstakingly salvaged just in time' Daily Telegraph `Maalouf has a novelist's ear for language and an historian's eye for detail: they have combined to create a masterpiece which can only help to further understanding of our complicated times' Tablet |
| Reader Age: |
From 18 years |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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