A profoundly intelligent book about identity: how the individual defines it and how different cultures perceive and construct it.
Amin Maalouf's fiction includes Leo the African, Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Prix Goncourt, Samarkand and Ports of Call. He is also the author of an acclaimed scholarly work, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, as well as the much admired essay, 'On Identity'. Barbara Bray has twice won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize, as well as the French-American Foundation Prize, for her translations. These include The Lover by Marguerite Duras, The Concert by Ismail Kadare, and George Sand's letters in Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence.
"His observation of human nature in all its facets is wonderfully accurate" -- David Robson Sunday Telegraph "His is a voice which Europe cannot afford to ignore" -- Claire Messud Guardian "This book sets out quite simply what is required of civilisation in the third millennium" Le Monde
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