Adrift (eBook)

How Our World Lost Its Way

Amin Maalouf (Autor)

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2020
World Editions (Verlag)
978-1-64286-078-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. "e;Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor."e; - The New York Times Book ReviewThe United States is on the verge of losing all moral credibility. The European Union is in the process of breaking apart. The Arab world is embroiled in crisis. Thus divided and lacking solidarity, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment and our health. How did we get here and what is yet to come? World-renowned scholar and bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Amin Maalouf, is awake to the dangerous consequences we are about to face. In Adrift, Maalouf traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century, mixing personal narrative and historical analysis to provide a warning signal for the future.

Autor

lt;b>Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut. He studied economics and sociology and then worked as an international reporter until the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975. Maalouf and his family decided to leave their country and settled in Paris in 1976, where he became editor in chief for the newspaper Jeune Afrique. He published his first book, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, in 1983. In 1993, The Rock of Tanios, his fifth novel, won the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious literary award in France. Maalouf is a member of the Académie Française and in 2010 was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his entire oeuvre. His work has been translated into fifty languages and his most recent bestselling novel to be published in English is The Disoriented.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Übersetzer: Frank Wynne
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Schlagworte: Académie Française • Best Lebanese Author • climate crisis • Crusades Through Arab Eyes • disordered world • Elias Khoury • famous Lebanese author • French Academy • Global politics • in the name of identity • Kahlil Gebran • Leo Africanus • Middle East • modern history • Prix Goncourt • Rock of Tanios
• ISBN-10: 1-64286-078-6 / 1642860786
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64286-078-8 / 9781642860788