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Availability:In StockContributor:Amin Maalouf, Frank Wynne (Translator)Publish date:2020-05-12Pages:522
Language:EnglishPublisher:World EditionsISBN-13:9781642860580ISBN-10:1642860581UPC:9781642860580Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Friendship, Cultural HeritageSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC221605QJ
After 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.
Language:EnglishPublisher:World EditionsISBN-13:9781642860580ISBN-10:1642860581UPC:9781642860580Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Friendship, Cultural HeritageSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC221605QJ

AMIN MAALOUF was born in Beirut. He studied economics and sociology and then worked as an international reporter until the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975. Maalouf and his family decided to leave their country and settled in Paris in 1976, where he became editor in chief for the newspaper Jeune Afrique. He published his first book, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, in 1983. In 1993, The Rock of Tanios, his fifth novel, won the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious literary award in France. Maalouf is a member of the Académie Française and in 2010 was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his entire oeuvre. His work has been translated into fifty languages and his most recent bestselling novel to be published in English is The Disoriented.

FRANK WYNNE is a literary translator, writer and editor based in London, UK. He has translated numerous French and Hispanic authors including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Javier Cercas, and Virginie Despentes. His work has earned him numerous prizes including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the Premio Valle Inclán. Most recently, his translation of Animalia won the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize. He edited the anthology Found in Translation collecting a hundred of the finest translated stories from around the world.


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