Amin Maalouf Forfatter
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Samarkand (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A gripping historical novel set in 11th century Persia, about the poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Breathtaking analysis of the current global crisis from one of the Arab world's most respected writers
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Rock Of Tanios (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon's troubled past, by tracing the life of Tanios, a child of the mountains, who one day in 1840 disappeared from the rock that now bears his name.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The First Century After Beatrice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains a few of these beans, he worries that the world has entered a critical phase of its history.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Disoriented (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A big, exquisite novel about friendship, betrayal, nostalgia, culture, politics, and beliefs.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tranlsated from the French by George MillerA 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.
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On Identity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Ports of Call (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Balthasar's Odyssey (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, and merely to know this most secret hundredth name will, Balthasar believes, ensure his salvation.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Gardens Of Light (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mani is born into a time of war - 3rd-century Mesopotamia. Despite being the son of a warrior, he becomes a painter, physician, mystic and prophet, preaching in the battlefields, a doctrine of humility, tolerance and love that becomes known as "Manicheanism".
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Leo The African (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. This is a story of pirates, slave-girls and princesses, in a world in a state of religious flux.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Leo Africanus (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description of Africa.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
