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- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
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Ports of Call by Amin Maalouf, a historical novel which sweeps the reader away on a journey through multiple wars, countries and eras of history. It tells the story of Ossyane, a descendant of Turkish royalty whose life is shaped by his experience of two different conflicts: becoming a member of the French Resistance in World War II leads him to meet the love of his life, only for the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to tear them apart. By turns uplifting and heartbreaking,
Ports of Call is a call for tolerance, love and peace in a world scarred by war. It is the sixth novel published by Amin Maalouf, who has received the Prix Goncourt for his novel
The Rock of Tanios and went on to become a member of the Académie française. Although he writes in French, his native tongue is Arabic.
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Amin Maalouf
Lebanese-born French journalist and writer
Born in Beirut in 1949.Notable works:Leo the African (1986), novelPorts of Call (1996), novelIn the Name of Identity (1998), essayBorn in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1949, Amin Maalouf worked as a journalist for An-Nahar, Beirut’s main daily newspaper. He was forced into exile when the civil war broke out in 1975, and moved to Paris, where he worked as a correspondent for Jeune Afrique, reporting on various global conflicts. In 1983, he published his first essay, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, and went on to become a successful novelist with the publication of Leo Africanus in 1986. He then devoted himself exclusively to literature, publishing novels, essays and opera librettos. In 1993, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt for The Rock of Tanios, a novel which is set in Lebanon and reflects the author’s deep nostalgia for his homeland. Maalouf was elected to the Académie français in June 2011.
Ports of Call
A sense of tolerance in the face of human conflict
Genre: novelReference edition: Maalouf, A. (2001) Ports of Call. Trans. Manguel, A. London: Harvill Press.1st edition: 1996Themes: civil war, exile, resistance, freedom, nostalgiaLike all of Maalouf’s published works, Ports of Call, first translated into English in 1999, delivers a humanist message of tolerance, love and peace. Drawing on the Lebanese civil war, Maalouf details an exiled hero’s journey between different countries, languages and religions. From Istanbul to Alexandria, Adana to Beirut and even as far as Paris, Ossyane embarks on a journey into his own past, which acts as a framing device for the saga of a modern world torn apart by violence, inter-community conflict, and genocide. Ports of Call is a novel about resisting oppression and injustice, about the dream of a multicultural society, and the coexistence of different faiths.
Summary
The narrator introduces his aim: to tell “the story of someone else’s life” (p. 3). When he happens to cross paths with a mysterious, aging stranger on the Paris metro in June 1976, he recognises “the face of a young man looking dazzled” (p. 3) which he had seen several years ago in a photograph of some of the men who had gone to join the French Resistance. At his request, the stranger, Ossyane, agrees to share his story.
