

- Politics and government, History, Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -, Politics/International Relations
The end of an empire. The birth of two nations.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 564
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, R. Laffont, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- French, urd, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780246115997
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About Dominique Lapierre · 1931–2022
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