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Samarkand - Amin Maalouf, Russell Harris
Samarkand
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781566561945 (1566561949)
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story
Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story rated it
5.0 Samarkand
Wow. A sweeping story about the Rubaiyat, and Persian history. One of the best historical fictions I've read, it tells a rich history, complicated and personal as well as political. The first part of the story takes place around the year 1100, during the lifetime of Omar Khayyam, and tells of his...
Books etc.
Books etc. rated it
As so many books before it, the end doomed the whole book. in this case, the last part, the modern part. I just found it really odd how he managed to match his visit on the brink of revolution or assasination & it just lost my trust to the story. Didn't even like his love story w/ princess. The Omma...
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it
2.0 Samarkand
This went over my head. I did learn about the Sufi poet, sage, astronomer, mathematician, Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) of 11th century Persia and his famed Rubaiyaat, about life during the Seljuk empire before the Mongol invasion, about Nizam ul Mulk, Hassan Sabbah, the founder of the Order of the Ass...
Ilhem
Ilhem rated it
“At the bottom of the Atlantic, there is a book. I am going to tell you its history. (…) Six years after the event, I am still obsessed by this object of flesh and ink, whose unworthy guardian I was“ - Benjamin Omar Lesage.Amin Maalouf said about his work as a novelist that he tried to build positiv...
ibrahemz
ibrahemz rated it
2.0 سمرقند
حقيقة لا أعرف ماهو السبب الفعلي لهاتين النجمتين، ولكن ما أنا واثق منه أن هذه الرواية أضجرتني، وكنت كلما تشبثت ببداية أمل فيها ـ مع بداية كل فصل ـ تخيب كل آمالي دفعةً واحدة، ربما هو سقف التوقعات، ربما تشتت ذهني، ربما أشياء أخرى.. ولكن ما أنا متأكد منه أن الرواية لم تعجبني بل زادتني خنقًا .... حسنًا ...
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