by Amin Maalouf · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253152446
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«Le Périple de Baldassare» is the historical novel by Amin Maalouf, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (506 pages, in French).
In 1665, the Genoese merchant Baldassare Embriaco sets out on a journey in search of a book that could save a desperate world. He travels across the Mediterranean through declining countries, besieged cities and communities awaiting a miracle; he finds deceit and disillusionment, and also an unexpected love.
Originally published in 2000, the Le Livre de Poche edition came out in 2002. The novel was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize.
For readers of historical and travel fiction, particularly followers of Amin Maalouf and stories 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.
