by Amin Maalouf · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420656830
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«El viaje de Baldassare» is the historical novel by Amin Maalouf, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (440 pages, in Spanish).
In 1666, the year of the Antichrist, Baldassare Embriaco, a descendant of Genoese in Lebanon, seeks a book that would protect him from announced catastrophes. The journey across the Mediterranean to London brings him fear, deceit, disillusionment, and love. It is a novel about clashes and bridges between East and West and the right to be a foreigner without humiliation.
Work published in the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Biblioteca Maalouf (no. 763). Translation by Santiago Martín Bermúdez. Original title: Le périple de Baldassare.
For readers of historical and adventure fiction interested in the encounter between cultures.
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.
