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The four wise men / Michel Tournier ; translated from the French by Ralph Manheim.
LIBRA PQ2680.O83 G313 1982
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tournier, Michel.
- Standardized Title:
- Gaspard, Melchior & Balthazar. French
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Magi--Fiction.
- Magi.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1982.
- Summary:
- Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem--and audaciously imagines a fourth, "the eternal latecomer"' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, "rachat loukoum," and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Gaspar, Melchior & Balthazar.
- ISBN:
- 0385177232 :
- OCLC:
- 8194661
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