Balthasar's Odyssey

Amin Maalouf (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2003
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-945208-9 (ISBN)

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There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, and merely to know this most secret hundredth name will, Balthasar believes, ensure his salvation.

There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name?

In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is to find the secret that could save the world.

Before the dawn of the apocalyptic 'Year of the Beast' in 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant, sets out on an adventure that will take him across the breadth of the civilised world, from Constantinople, through the Mediterranean, to London shortly before the Great Fire.

Balthasar's urgent quest is to track down a copy of one of the rarest and most coveted books ever printed, a volume called 'The Hundredth Name', its contents are thought to be of vital importance to the future of the world. There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, and merely to know this most secret hundredth name will, Balthasar believes, ensure his salvation.

Amin Maalouf's fiction includes Leo the African, Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Prix Goncourt, Samarkand and Ports of Call. He is also the author of an acclaimed scholarly work, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, as well as the much admired essay, 'On Identity'.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.9.2003
Übersetzer	Barbara Bray
Zusatzinfo	35
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	282 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-945208-1 / 0099452081
ISBN-13	978-0-09-945208-9 / 9780099452089
Zustand	Neuware