An ambitious novel set in 1665, the tumultuous eve of the Year of the Beast, when the world was supposed to come to an end. Antiquarian merchant and sage Balthasar must go on an odyssey in search of a book that holds the secret of God's hundredth name...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9781417634477
An ambitious novel set in 1665, the tumultuous eve of the Year of the Beast, when the world was supposed to come to an end. Antiquarian merchant and sage Balthasar must go on an odyssey in search of a book that holds the secret of God's hundredth name...more details
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9780099452089
There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? In this tale of magic and mystery...more details Format:Paperback
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9781860469923
A journey across cultures and civilisations in search of spiritual salvation and literary enlightenment. In the Koran there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of the apocalyptic "Year of the Beast"...more details Format:Hardback
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9781611451184
An ambitious, stunning new novel by Goncourt Prize-winner Amin Maalouf, set in the tumultuous, fateful Year of the Beast.It is 1665, and all the signs and portents foretell that next year the Antichrist will appear and the world will come to an end. Antiquarian merchant and sage...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9781408815984
A dazzling and ultimately hopeful exploration and analysis of our disordered and volatile post-9/11 world by one of the leading international writers and thinkers of our times....more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9781608195848
Born into a Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, acclaimed writer Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation. His first book...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9780142002575
In this cogent and persuasive examination of identity in the modern world, Amin Maalouf moves across the world's history, faiths, and politics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9781611453249
Release Date: 01 March 2012 In this cogent and persuasive examination of identity in the modern world, Amin Maalouf moves across the world's history, faiths, and politics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
"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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9781860467295
A lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of one of the most misapplied words and concepts in our language and one that has given rise to some of the most heated passions and crimes throughout history: identity - that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual. The notion of identity - be it religious...more details Format:Paperback
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9780330442480
"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...more details Format:Hardback
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9780374531768
"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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:404
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Amin Maalouf
ISBN:9781860468902
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:197
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Amin Maalouf;Barbara Bray
ISBN:9781559705936
The notion of identity -- personal, religious, ethnic, or national -- has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout history. What makes each one of us unique has been a fundamental question of philosophy from Socrates to Freud...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:164
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Amin Maalouf;Catherine Temerson
ISBN:9780374227326
"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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:404
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:312
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Amin Maalouf;Russell Harris
ISBN:9781566562003
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:312
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Amin Maalouf;Dorothy S Blair
ISBN:9781566562478
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Maalouf Amin
ISBN:9780349108711
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Maalouf Amin
ISBN:9780330442497
A resonant, intensely personal exploration of identity and belonging, by a writer in search of home
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:416