Balthasars Odyssey
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Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2011-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448128044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448128048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Balthasar's Odyssey by : Amin Maalouf
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, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is to find the secret that could save the world. Before the dawn of the apocalyptic 'Year of the Beast' in 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant, sets out on an adventure that will take him across the breadth of the civilised world, from Constantinople, through the Mediterranean, to London shortly before the Great Fire. Balthasar's urgent quest is to track down a copy of one of the rarest and most coveted books ever printed, a volume called 'The Hundredth Name', its contents are thought to be of vital importance to the future of the world. 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.
Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1611455405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781611455403 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Balthasar's Odyssey: A Novel by : Amin Maalouf
In 1665, with prophecies and portents fortelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest to find a rare book that could hold the key to the world's salvation.
Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: Turtleback Books |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2003-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1417634472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781417634477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Balthasar's Odyssey by : Amin Maalouf
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, which is the key to the survival of the world.
Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: George Braziller |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015033989693 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rock of Tanios by : Amin Maalouf
In the 19th Century, a sheik's son is forced to flee Lebanon because of a power struggle. He finds refuge in Cyprus and plots against his enemies with the aid of the French and the British. A tale of palace intrigues by the author of Leo Africanus.
Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: Abacus |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2012-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748131259 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748131256 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gardens Of Light by : Amin Maalouf
Born in a Mesopotamian village in the third century, the son of a Parthian warrior, Mani grows up in a volatile and dangerous world. As battle rages for control over the Middle East between the great Roman and Persian empires, as Jews and Christians, Buddhists and Zoroastrians fight for ascendency, Mani- painter, mystic, physician and prophet- makes his way through the battlefields to preach to his incandescent doctrine of humility, tolerance and love, a doctrine that comes to be known as Manicheanism. A vivid glimpse of the ancient world in all its perfumed splendour and cruelty, an elegantly philosophical discourse on the fall of man, THE GARDENS OF LIGHT is a story of great beauty and resonance, exquisitely told.
Author |
: Frédéric Richaud |
Publisher |
: Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1559705833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781559705837 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gardener to the King by : Frédéric Richaud
"As gardener to His Majesty, Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie is master of his own domain, the royal fruit and vegetable garden. Louis' generals might proclaim the power of France abroad, but La Quintine's espaliers and vegetable plots assert nothing less than man's mastery over nature; a garden that can feed a thousand at a sitting, standards of pruning that in three hundred years have never been surpassed."--Jacket.
Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: Gardners Books |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0349105995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780349105994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Century After Beatrice by : Amin Maalouf
A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant - and when the entomologist does some research in to the matter, discovering the incidence of female birth has become increasingly rare, he is left in no doubt that the world has entered intoa critical phase of its history. As this beloved daughter Beatrice approaches maturity, the entomologist and his partner question the validity of gender bias, and attempt to redress the growing imbalance before it reaches irreversible proportions. But in the poverty and famine of the South, where male children can mean the difference between survival and starvation, the popularity of the scarab beans is already taking devastating effect.
Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2012-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408822449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140882244X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disordered World by : Amin Maalouf
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.
Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2008-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429953634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429953632 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Origins by : Amin Maalouf
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, Cuba—Origins recounts the family history of the generation of Maalouf's paternal grandfather, Boutros Maalouf. Maalouf sets out to discover the truth about why Boutros, a poet and educator in Lebanon, traveled across the globe to rescue his younger brother, Gabrayel, who had settled in Havana. What follows is the gripping excavation of a family's hidden past. Maalouf is an energetic and amiable narrator, illuminating the more obscure corners of late Ottoman nationalism, the psychology of Lebanese sectarianism, and the dynamics of family quarrels. He moves with great agility across time and space, and across genres of writing. But he never loses track of his story's central thread: his quest to lift the shadow of legend from his family's past. Origins is at once a gripping family chronicle and a timely consideration of Lebanese culture and politics.
Author |
: Homer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 118 |
Release |
: 1914 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105012216136 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Iliad of Homer by : Homer