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21%OFFAmin Maalouf - Ports of Call - 9781860468902 - V9781860468902
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Ports of Call

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Description for Ports of Call Paperback. 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. Translator(s): Manguel, Alberto. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.

A graceful story of love across an insuperable gulf and a powerful allegory for the conflict that has beset the Middle East for the last half century.

To call your son Ossyane is like calling him Rebellion. For Ossyane’s father it is a gesture of protest by an excited Ottoman prince, for Ossyane himself it is a burdensome responsibility. At eighteen he leaves Beirut to study in Montpellier, far away from his father’s revolutionary aspirations for him. But it is 1938, and when war breaks out in Europe, Ossyane is drawn into the Resistance. His return to Beirut is ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860468902
SKU
V9781860468902
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About Amin Maalouf
Amin Maalouf's fiction includes Leo the African, Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Prix Goncourt, Samarkand and Ports of Call. He is also the author of an acclaimed scholarly work, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, as well as the much admired essay, 'On Identity'. Alberto Mangguel was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in Canada and in ... Read more

Reviews for Ports of Call
Maalouf is a master storyteller
David Robinson
Sunday Telegraph
A simple and touching love story...limpid and delicate in the telling
Times Literary Supplement
A beautiful work of fiction
Pierre Robert Leclerco
Le Monde
Maalouf's novels recreate the thrill of childhood reading, that primitive mixture of learning about something unknown or unimagined and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Ports of Call


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