The four wise men / Michel Tournier ; translated from the French by Ralph Manheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tournier, Michel.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Gaspard, Melchior & Balthazar. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Magi--Fiction.

Magi.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

223 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Uncorrected proof.

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: Gaspard, Melchior & Balthazar.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has publicity letter from publisher to Gotham Book Mart laid in.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has press release laid in.

OCLC:

904440344