by Amin Maalouf · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420606453
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«Samarcanda» is the historical novel by Amin Maalouf, published by Alianza in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
The novel revolves around a lost manuscript containing the famous Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam. The narrative moves between 11th-century Persia, with its poets and assassins, and the dawn of the 20th century, when an American academic obsessed with the original text tries to recover it.
Edition from Alianza's El Libro de Bolsillo collection (no. 1645). Originally published in French as «Samarcande» (1988), winner of the Prix Maison de la Presse.
For readers of historical fiction and narrative set in the Middle East and Persia.
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.
