![]() At the opening of the book, the author describes the family lore that inspired his curiosity, later fueled by the discovery of a trunk full of letters after his father’s death. ![]() ![]() Newly translated into English, Origins is a saga woven around family legend and the remarkable figure of the author’s paternal grandfather, Botros Maalouf. The original French version of Maalouf’s first memoir, Origines, won the Prix Méditerranée in 2004. Maalouf’s best-known nonfiction text, The Crusades through Arab Eyes, is considered a classic in Middle Eastern studies (cited by at least one hundred other books to date). His fifth novel, The Rock of Tanios, won France’s premier literary award, the Prix Goncourt. ![]() A world-renowned novelist, essayist, historian, journalist, and librettist, Maalouf bridges East and West through his exploratory writing about Arab culture. Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born journalist who immigrated to France in 1975 to escape his country’s civil war. ![]()
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