The Disoriented |
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| Author:
| Maalouf, Amin |
| Translator:
| Wynne, Frank |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64286-058-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2020 |
| Publisher: | World Editions LLC
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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One night, a phone rings in Paris.
Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago.
Exiled in France, Adam has been leading a peaceful life as a respected historian, but back among the milk-white mountains of the East his past soon catches up with him. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life -- and some...
More Description
One night, a phone rings in Paris.
Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago.
Exiled in France, Adam has been leading a peaceful life as a respected historian, but back among the milk-white mountains of the East his past soon catches up with him. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life -- and some now have blood on their hands.
Loyalty, identity, and the clash of cultures and beliefs are at the core of this long-awaited novel by the French-Lebanese literary giant Amin Maalouf.
'Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.' -- The New York Times Book Review
'A thoughtful, philosophically rich storythat probes a still-open wound. An exile returns home to a land still torn apart bycivil war 25 years afterward. Think The Big Chill in Beirut with some of the sex but little of the lightheartednessin Jeune Afrique editor-in-chief Maalouf's charged novel.' -- Kirkus Reviews
'Having moved from Beirut toParis with the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, the Prix Goncourt-winningMaalouf (The Rock of Tanios) deftlylets us know how the changes wrought by time's passage really feel, especiallywhen one has traded continents and cultures.' -- ALA Booklist
'Amin Maalouf gives us a perfect look at the thoughts and feelings that can lead to emigration. One can only be impressed by the magnitude and the precision of his introspection.' -- Le Monde des Livres
'A great work, which explores the wounds of the exile and the compromises of those who stay.' -- L'Amour des Livres