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Ports of call / Amin Maalouf ; translated from the French by Alberto Manguel.
Van Pelt Library PQ3979.2.M28 E2513 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maalouf, Amin.
- Standardized Title:
- Echelles du Levant. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--Fiction.
- Muslims.
- History.
- Israel.
- Israel--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Beirut (Lebanon)--20th century--Fiction.
- Beirut (Lebanon).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 197 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harvill, 1999.
- Summary:
- To call your son Ossyane is like calling him Rebellion or Disobedience. When Ossyane's father gives him that name, it represents the protest of an aristocratic but liberal man against a history of sectarianism and violence that has characterized the world he inherited from his Ottoman ancestors. But his brilliant, dutiful son develops into a peaceable young man, and travels to France to study, away from the burden of his father's revolutionary ambitions.
- War breaks out in Europe, and Ossyane is drawn into the Resistance, where he meets Clara. He returns to Beirut, to a rebel hero's welcome after all, and to joyful marriage with Clara. The Jewish-Muslim couple move to Haifa, but if one war has made a hero out of Ossyane, another, much closer to home, is destined to separate him from the people and the world that he loves.
- ISBN:
- 1860464467
- 1860464475
- OCLC:
- 42310616
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