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Cette autobiographie imaginaire part d'une histoire vraie. En 1518, un ambassadeur maghrébin, recevant d'un pèlerinage à la Mecque, est capturé par des pirates siciliens, qui l'offrent en cadeau à Léon X, le grand pape de la Renaissance.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Amin Maalouf
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 441
- Publisher
- Quartet, Al-Farabi, New Amsterdam Books
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- cat, per, German, English
- ISBN
- 9789961903254
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Amin Maalouf (French: [maluf]; Arabic: أمين معلوف Arabic pronunciation: [maʕˈluːf]; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages. Of his several works of nonfiction, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes is probably the best known. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios, as well as the 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the Académie française and was elected its Perpetual Secretary on 28 September 2023
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