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Balthasar's odyssey
a novel
By Maalouf, Amin & Bray, Barbara
- ISBN
- 978-1-55970-666-7
- Publisher
- New York : Arcade Pub. : c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2002
Lebanese author Maalouf, winner of France's Prix Goncourt in 1993, sets this historical novel mostly in the Mediterranean of the mid-1600s. Balthasar Embriaco, an exiled Italian merchant, becomes fixated on retrieving a mysterious religious text called The Hundredth Name that he mistakenly sold to a traveler who stopped in his shop in the Levant. He thus sets out on a long...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
