Samarkand
№37187 Created: 11 October 2024
Genre:
Novel
Binding:
soft
Author:
Amen Maalouf
Publishing house:
Yapi Kredi̇ Publications
Language:
Turkish
"Rubaiyat on the Titanic! The flower of the East in the Flowerbed of the West! Oh Khayyam! If only I could see this beautiful moment we are living!"
After "African Leo" (YKY, 1993), Amin Maalouf looks to the East, to Iran this time. Two intertwined stories revolving around Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat... An adventure that begins in 1072 in Khayyam's Samarkand and (doesn't) end in 1912 in the Atlantic... The story/history of the writing of a manuscript and the reading of its history and Iran's history when it is read hundreds of years later...
After "African Leo" (YKY, 1993), Amin Maalouf looks to the East, to Iran this time. Two intertwined stories revolving around Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat... An adventure that begins in 1072 in Khayyam's Samarkand and (doesn't) end in 1912 in the Atlantic... The story/history of the writing of a manuscript and the reading of its history and Iran's history when it is read hundreds of years later...
№37187 Created: 11 October 2024
