Origins: A Memoir - Paperback

Name: Origins: A Memoir - Paperback
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SKU: 9780374531768
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by Amin Maalouf

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Book Overview

Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning intergenerational saga.

Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth, in the mountains of Lebanon and in Havana, Cuba, Origins recounts the family history of the generation of Maalouf's paternal grandfather, Boutros. Why did Boutros, a poet and educator in Lebanon, travel across the globe to rescue his younger brother, Gebrayel, who had settled in Havana?

Maalouf is an energetic and amiable narrator, illuminating the more obscure corners of late Ottoman nationalism, the psychology of Lebanese sectarianism, and the dynamics of family quarrels. He moves with great agility across time and space, and across genres of writing. But he never loses track of his story's central thread: his quest to lift the shadow of legend from his family's past.

Origins is at once a gripping family chronicle and a timely consideration of Lebanese culture and politics.

ISBN	9780374531768
Author	Amin Maalouf
Publisher	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Genre	Biography
Format	Paperback
Published	June 2009
Language	ENG- English
Pages	416
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print