Amin Maalouf | Balthasar's Odyssey
- Copyright: © Amin Maalouf, 2000 and © Editions Grasset & Fasquelle 2000
English translation copyright © Barbara Bray, 2002An ambitious novel set in 1665, the tumultuous eve of the Year of the Beast, when the world was supposed to come to an end. Antiquarian merchant and sage Balthasar must go on an odyssey in search of a book that holds the secret of God's hundredth name, which is the key to the survival of the world.
Amin Maalouf has written seven novels, including The Gardens of Light, Leo Africanus, and The Rock of Tanios, which won the Goncourt Prize in 1993. He is the former director of the leading Beirut newspaper an-Nahar. He lives in Paris.- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
- Pages: 391
- Cover: softcover
- First published: 2000
- This edition published: 2003