by Amin Maalouf · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253051206
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«Samarcande» is the historical novel by Amin Maalouf, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (312 pages, in French).
The novel interweaves 11th-century Persia, where Omar Khayyam cultivates poetry and astronomy and Hassan Sabbah founds the order of the Assassins, with the journey of a manuscript that disappeared during the Mongol invasions and was rediscovered in a 19th- and early 20th-century East where freedom and fanaticism clash.
«Samarcande» won the Prix Maison de la Presse in 1988. This French edition from Le Livre de Poche was published in 1989.
For readers of historical fiction and narrative on the Middle East, as well as for those who wish to read Amin Maalouf in French.
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.
