Ebook {Epub PDF} Ports of Call by Amin Maalouf

Ports Of Call ($; Nov. 30; pp.; ): The native Lebanese (now French) author of such exotic fiction as The Rock of Tanios () and The Gardens of Light (p. ) offers here the winsome (though strangely uninvolving) story of Turkish-Lebanese nobleman Ossyane Ketabdar's renunciation of both his father's revolutionary ardor and Clara, the Jewish woman whom their . Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut, his mother in Cairo (where his parents also married) and he later moved to France, when the Lebanese civil war started in All these places, plus others like Istanbul and Haifa, are present in Ports of Call, as the characters move to and fro between them/5. In his novel Ports of Call [Les Échelles du Levant] (originally published in Frenc h in ), Amin Maalouf presents two protagonists who attempt to swerve from performing their identity roles Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.

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Ports of Call by Amin Maalouf and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Ports Of Call ($; Nov. 30; pp.; ): The native Lebanese (now French) author of such exotic fiction as The Rock of Tanios () and The Gardens of Light (p. ) offers here the winsome (though strangely uninvolving) story of Turkish-Lebanese nobleman Ossyane Ketabdar's renunciation of both his father's revolutionary ardor and Clara, the Jewish woman whom their respective cultures, a world war, and the later () Arab-Israeli War keep apart for many years, before a. His novel Ports of Call depends on a perhaps clichéd plot: an improbable love that, like such loves often do, starts off in an idyll of happiness that is quickly undone by challenges beyond the two lovers' control. In this case, the challenges involve the fraught political world of the Middle East, beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire and continuing through the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War.