The Disoriented
Published on 12. May 2020
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Paperback/Softback
522 pages
978-1-64286-058-0 (ISBN)
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One night, a phone rings in Paris.
Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago.
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. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life - and some now have blood on their hands.
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.
'Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.' - The New York Times Book Review
'A thoughtful, philosophically rich storythat probes a still-open wound. An exile returns home to a land still torn apart bycivil war 25 years afterward. Think The Big Chill in Beirut with some of the sex but little of the lightheartednessin Jeune Afrique editor-in-chief Maalouf's charged novel.' - Kirkus Reviews
'Having moved from Beirut toParis with the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, the Prix GoncourtwinningMaalouf (The Rock of Tanios) deftlylets us know how the changes wrought by time's passage really feel, especiallywhen one has traded continents and cultures.' - ALA Booklist
'Amin Maalouf gives us a perfect look at the thoughts and feelings that can lead to emigration. One can only be impressed by the magnitude and the precision of his introspection.' - Le Monde des Livres
'A great work, which explores the wounds of the exile and the compromises of those who stay.' - L'Amour des Livres
Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago.
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. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life - and some now have blood on their hands.
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.
'Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.' - The New York Times Book Review
'A thoughtful, philosophically rich storythat probes a still-open wound. An exile returns home to a land still torn apart bycivil war 25 years afterward. Think The Big Chill in Beirut with some of the sex but little of the lightheartednessin Jeune Afrique editor-in-chief Maalouf's charged novel.' - Kirkus Reviews
'Having moved from Beirut toParis with the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, the Prix GoncourtwinningMaalouf (The Rock of Tanios) deftlylets us know how the changes wrought by time's passage really feel, especiallywhen one has traded continents and cultures.' - ALA Booklist
'Amin Maalouf gives us a perfect look at the thoughts and feelings that can lead to emigration. One can only be impressed by the magnitude and the precision of his introspection.' - Le Monde des Livres
'A great work, which explores the wounds of the exile and the compromises of those who stay.' - L'Amour des Livres
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64286-058-0 (9781642860580)
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AMIN MAALOUF was born in Beirut. He studied economics and sociology and then worked as an international reporter until the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975. Maalouf and his family decided to leave their country and settled in Paris in 1976, where he became editor in chief for the newspaper Jeune Afrique. He published his first book, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, in 1983. In 1993, The Rock of Tanios, his fifth novel, won the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious literary award in France. Maalouf is a member of the Academie Francaise and in 2010 was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his entire oeuvre. His work has been translated into fifty languages and his most recent bestselling novel to be published in English is The Disoriented.
FRANK WYNNE is a literary translator, writer and editor based in London, UK. He has translated numerous French and Hispanic authors including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Javier Cercas, and Virginie Despentes. His work has earned him numerous prizes including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the Premio Valle Incln. Most recently, his translation of Animalia won the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize. He edited the anthology Found in Translation collecting a hundred of the finest translated stories from around the world.
FRANK WYNNE is a literary translator, writer and editor based in London, UK. He has translated numerous French and Hispanic authors including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Javier Cercas, and Virginie Despentes. His work has earned him numerous prizes including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the Premio Valle Incln. Most recently, his translation of Animalia won the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize. He edited the anthology Found in Translation collecting a hundred of the finest translated stories from around the world.