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Original Title:	Le périple de Baldassare
ISBN:	155970702X (ISBN13: 9781559707022)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.aminmaalouf.net/fr/ses-livres/le-periple-de-baldassare/
Characters:	Marta, Baldassare Embriaco
Literary Awards:	Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (2001), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2004)

Balthasar's Odyssey

Amin Maalouf

Paperback | Pages: 391 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 4049 Users | 311 Reviews

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Title	:	Balthasar's Odyssey
Author	:	Amin Maalouf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 391 pages
Published	:	November 14th 2003 by Arcade Publishing (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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I bought this book in a charity shop for £1 because I liked the cover. What a bargain! I loved this tale which revolves around the fears of ordinary people that the world would end in 1666 - The Year of the Beast. I enjoyed the diary format and became quite fond of the diary writer. He was sometimes a pompous man but because he was only writing his journal for himself, he wrote down all his insecurities, worries, etc without reservation and that is how we come to know the real man. It's sometimes funny, sometimes quite moving, never boring and entertaining throughout. I'll happily recommend it as a really good read.

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1666 Annus Horribilis, The Year of the Beast and absolutely a challenge to Balthasar.Love lost, love found, and lost once more.London is on fire and an eccentric self proclaimed Messiah is opposing the Ottoman Sultan.Balthasar is in the center of it all, no matter where he travels on his quest to get back what was bequeathed to him, the infamous book that may or may not reveal the highest name of Allah, the 100th name. A very well spun saga, loosely built on the esteemed Genoese Embriaco familys

[screams into the void] I'd probably never choose to read this book on my own, a book in which so much and yet so little happens. maybe i'll put my academic review up here later.

The unexpected journey around the world in 1665 and 1666 of a reluctant traveler. A very authentic representation of the universal journey of life through the personal journal of this Genoveze wanderer, always chasing what seems like a ghost, and eventually finding the strength to own his decisions and take control of his fate.

With the merchant-narrator of this novel set in 1600s, the reader is in good company. The daily details of the time, their customs, careful respect for religious sentiments, everything comes together in a breezy narrative. But the kind of intrigue I was expecting from the premise, a yarn spun around a rare book featuring the 1000th name of God, the novel failed to deliver. I was expecting Umberto Eco, not Dan Brown, but I got something like a Lebanese soap opera filled with ship journeys,



A great story by the great writer amin Maalouf. Like always Maalouf give us a glimpse about the old world the year 1666 ( the year of the beast ) and the connection existing between the east and the west. Family love and friendship. With the eyes of a Genoa-man leaving in the east, and traveling the known world in searching of a book and reaching his destiny.

I read Balthazar's Oddysey while traveling to London to give a conference proceeding on surveillance and fiction and will forever associate the event with it. I just couldn't put it down. :) The book reminded me of Umberto Eco's Baudolino in a good and less heavy way (and in no way diminishing its own uniqueness). It was a delight to read about the frenzy which gripped the imagination of people in 1666 and their exalted state of mind, whether they be among the prophets of doom, doubters,