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Samarkand

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Pornind de la un pretext literar (manuscrisul Rubaiatelor lui Omar Khayyam, cunoscutul poet persan), Amin Maalouf reconstruieşte, în Samarkand, un univers exotic de o frumuseţe tulburătoare, populat cu personaje coborîte parcă din O mie si una de nopti: Omar Khayyam însuşi, o personalitate remarcabilă a acelor timpuri, poet, matematician şi astronom strălucit, vizirul Nizam al-Mulk, ale cărui teorii politice anticipează Principele lui Machiavelli, şi Hasan Sabbah, al cărui fanatism religios este egalat numai de îndîrjirea cu care îşi conduce spre victorie grupul de asasini refugiat într-o fortăreaţă de pe culmile muntelui Alamut. Această lume pierdută este readusă la viaţă cu aproape un mileniu mai tîrziu, sub privirea unui cercetător aflat în căutarea manuscrisului pierdut.

400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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Amin Maalouf

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Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف; alternate spelling Amin Maluf) is a Lebanese journalist and novelist. He writes and publishes primarily in French.

Most of Maalouf's books have a historical setting, and like Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Maalouf mixes fascinating historical facts with fantasy and philosophical ideas. In an interview Maalouf has said that his role as a writer is to create "positive myths". Maalouf's works, written with the skill of a master storyteller, offer a sensitive view of the values and attitudes of different cultures in the Middle East, Africa and Mediterranean world.

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