Amin Maalouf | Ports of Call
- Copyright: © Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996
English translation: © Alberto Manguel, 1999
Ossyane, a young Lebanese man and his Jewish wife Clara return to live in Haifa after World War II. Just as war breaks out in the new-born state of Israel, Ossayne is forced to go to Beirut. The border with Israel closes behind him and he becomes separated from his wife with tragic consequences."'Ports of Call' manages to evoke a touching love story and it is limpid and delicate in the telling." - The Times Literary Supplement"Maalouf's novels re-create the thrill of childhood reading, that primitive mixture of learning about something unknown or unimagined..." - The Guardian
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
- Pages: 197
- Cover: softcover
- First published: 1996
- This edition published: 2001