by Amin Maalouf · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422686033
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«El viaje de Baldassare» is the historical novel by Amin Maalouf, published by FisicalBook in hardcover (450 pages, in Spanish).
In 1666, fear of the Antichrist and the end of the world leads the Genoese merchant Baldassare Embriaco, settled in Lebanon, to seek a book that protects against catastrophes. His journey across the Mediterranean to London confronts him with deceit, disillusionment, and love, and portrays the encounters between East and West and the struggle for identity.
Originally published in French as «Le périple de Baldassare», with translation by Santiago Martín Bermúdez. Special edition by Círculo de Lectores with dust jacket.
For readers of historical and adventure novels set in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean.
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.
