Doğunun Limanları
by:
Amin Maalouf (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789750809777
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Pages no: 184
Edition language: Turkish
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Politics,
France,
French Literature,
World War II,
Lebanon
Son zamanlarda Türkiye'de azınlıklar konusuna merak salmıştım, üstüne güzel denk geldi.
Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut, his mother in Cairo (where his parents also married) and he later moved to France, when the Lebanese civil war started in 1975. All these places, plus others like Istanbul and Haifa, are present in Ports of Call, as the characters move to and fro between them. Above ...
World fiction is hit or miss for me. This one was a hit.In this novella, a Lebanese man tells his life story to a journalist randomly met in Paris; the journalist introduces the story, which is essentially a monologue from the Lebanese man, spanning most of the 20th century. The translation is so sm...
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