by Amin Maalouf · GRASSET · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246497714
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«Les Échelles du Levant» is the novel by Amin Maalouf, published by Grasset in paperback (298 pages, in French).
The novel follows a man born of an Ottoman father and an Armenian mother whose life spans the agony of the Ottoman Empire, the two world wars and the tragedies of the Middle East. Maalouf weaves together his memory —a princely childhood, occupied France, his love for Clara— to speak of exile, identity and a love stronger than History.
The novel was originally published in French in 1996; the author, Amin Maalouf, is a French-Lebanese writer born in 1949.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative about the Middle East, exile and identity.
Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese French author who has lived in France since 1976. His native language is Arabic, and he writes in French. His works have been translated into over 40 languages.
