Amin Maalouf, Author New Amsterdam Books $16.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56131-022-7
Through the adventures of a wise, courageous traveler, this excellent historical novel limns Islamic culture at the time of Columbus. (July)
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Amin Maalouf, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-393-02630-6
Through the adventures of a wise, courageous traveler, this excellent historical novel re-creates the era when the Moors were expelled from Spain, and much of North Africa and southern Europe was in turmoil. Hassan al-Wazzan was just a child the...
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Amin Maalouf, trans. from the French by George Miller. Bloomsbury, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60819-584-8
A Lebanese Christian now living in Paris, Maalouf (The Rock of Tanios) writes, "We have embarked on a new century without a compass," and his polemic breezes over a grab bag of topics, from the idea of political legitimacy to Nasser, the catastrophe
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Amin Maalouf, Author, Barbara Bray, Translator . Arcade $22.95 (164p) ISBN 978-1-55970-593-6
"A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. 'Identity' is one of those false friends," begins this compelling, provocative and persuasive study of the dangers of...
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Amin Maalouf, Author, Barbara Bray, Translator , trans. from the French by Barbara Bray. Arcade $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-55970-666-7
Maalouf (In the Name of Identity, etc.) takes his readers on a long, meandering literary journey in his latest historical novel, which revolves around the quest to find a book supposedly published during the days of the Ottoman Empire. The tome in...
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Amin Maalouf, Author, Dorothy S. Blair, Translator Interlink Publishing Group $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56656-247-8
An absorbing historical novel and a compelling parable for our time, Lebanese writer Maalouf's (Samarkand) exotic tale recreates the life of Mani (216-274 C.E.), the Persian mystic who founded the Manichaean religion and was eventually executed on...
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Amin Maalouf, Author, Dorothy S. Blair, Translator George Braziller $18.5 (275p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1365-8
At age 15, in 1836, Tanios, the illegitimate son of a Lebanese Catholic sheikh, turns completely white-haired-an omen that he must be a ``wise fool,'' or ``old-head,'' one who appears briefly to redress injustice in troubled times. In this seductive,
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Amin Maalouf, Author, Dorothy S. Blair, Translator George Braziller $18.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1373-3
One wouldn't normally choose an erudite, publicity-shy Parisian entomologist to narrate a story about gender and population politics set in the first decades of the 21st century. But that's what the Lebanese-born Maalouf does in this elegant novel,...
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Amin Maalouf, Author, Catherine Temerson, Translator , trans. from the French by Catherine Temerson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (404p) ISBN 978-0-374-22732-6
In this sensitive if mildly overwritten memoir of long-held secrets, betrayal and denial, Maalouf, who won the 1993 Prix Goncourt for Rock of Tanios,
traces his familial history from a tiny mountainside village in Lebanon to Cuba and back....
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Gerhard Kopf, Author, Amin Maalouf, Author, Leslie Willson, Translator George Braziller $18.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1342-9
An intriguing parable about the necessity of art, and about the danger of substituting art for life, Kopf's clever new novel is narrated by an eccentric German bookseller, a loner and bibliomaniac who nurtures a lifelong obsession with Hemingway's...
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