First century after Beatrice

Amin Maalouf

This novel by Amin Maalouf, fierce and affectionate, funny and sober, calls for more than one interpretation. It is the story of the “motherly” love of a father towards his daughter, and the story of a man who adheres to the “femininity of the world.” And a novel about a mysterious disease that destroys women and ravages men, and a novel about the division of our planet into a crumbling south and a grumbling north, and a terrifying encounter between the evils of Salafism and the evils of modernity. Perhaps, above all, this novel is the account of the bewildering end of our age, casting an uneasy look at the powerfully present twenty-first century which the author vaguely calls "the first century after Beatrice."



About the book:

Cover: plain cardboard
Number of pages: 211 pages
Size: 14 * 21 cm
Weight: 248 grams. Translated by: Nahla Beydoun
Publishing house: Dar Al-Farabi



Keywords for research: "A century - the first - the first - the first - Patrice - Amin - Al-Maalouf".