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Title: Ports of Call by Amin Maalouf, Alberto Manguel ISBN: 1-86046-890-X Publisher: Harvill Pr Pub. Date: July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Triumph of Love
Comment: This is a very pleasant read. It is how a novel should be, effortless and touching essentially human issues, like love and destiny.
His third person narrative makes it interesting and allows Amin to voice his own thoughts throughout.
It is full of regional colors, characters and history, so typical of most of his writing. Quintessential Mediterane.
I was shocked to find out that his "Balthasar's Travels" is yet to be pubished here. I read the translation, it is a magnificient epic through medival Europe and Middle East, highly recommended also when it comes out this year. Amin is a master of historical context.
The heros of this book live a love story punctuated by wars, family tragedies and cultural and religious tensions. Most of the background events are the ones that have actually dominated our news for decades, but these folks actually live through it. In the end, their love seems to be the only thing that survives, or is it?
Highly recommended for a relaxing and warm reading that leaves a lasting taste and memory.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a pleasant surprise: Novel is still possible
Comment: This book revitalised my desire to read novels; for a long while, I thought novel was finished. But, no, not only it is not finished, it is still the best kind of reading. Maalouf manages to bring together all the essential elements: romance, gallantry, betrayal, suspense, surprise, hope, sorrow, pain, joy, you name it. I love reading his work but this one is something else. The scene where the hero meets his daughter in the asylum without actually knowing (but suspecting) who she is is going to make any reader tearful.
Rating: 5
Summary: My Favourite
Comment: This is the most outstanding of all the Maalouf novels I have read- and I must tell you I read almost all. This is probably also because the novel starts at my birthplace Adana, a southern town in Turkey. The novel is loaded with overflowing emotions. Not only I read it once every year but also I have gifted it at least 3-4 times.
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Title: The Gardens of Light (Emerging Voices Series New International Fiction) by Amin Maalouf, Dorothy S. Blair ISBN: 1566562481 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf ISBN: 0142002577 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf ISBN: 155970666X Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Samarkand by Amin Maalouf, Russell Harris ISBN: 1566562937 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf, Peter Sluglett ISBN: 1561310220 Publisher: New Amsterdam Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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