A thoughtful, philosophically rich story that probes a still-open wound.
Loyalty, identity, and the clash of cultures and beliefs are at the core of this long-awaited novel by the French-Lebanese literary giant Amin Maalouf..
His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life--and some now have blood on their hands.
Exiled in France, Adam has been leading a peaceful life as a respected historian, but back among the milk-white mountains of the East his past soon catches up with him.
He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago.
Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. -- The New York Times Book Review One night, a phone rings in Paris. --Kirkus Reviews Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.
A thoughtful, philosophically rich story that probes a still-open wound
