The United States is losing its moral credibility. The European Union is breaking apart. Africa, the Arab world, and the Mediterranean are becoming battlefields for various regional and global powers. Extreme forms of nationalism are on the rise. Thus divided, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment and our health. How did we get here and what is yet to come? World-renowned scholar and bestselling author Amin Maalouf seeks to raise awareness and pursue a new human solidarity. In Adrift, Maalouf traces how civilisations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century, mixing personal narrative and historical analysis to provide a warning signal for the future.
Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut. He studied economics and sociology and then worked as an international reporter until the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975. Maalouf and his family decided to leave their country and settled in Paris in 1976, where he became editor in chief for the newspaper Jeune Afrique. He published his first book, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, in 1983. In 1993, The Rock of Tanios, his fourth novel, won the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious literary award in France. Maalouf is a member of the Academie Francaise and in 2010 was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his entire oeuvre. Frank Wynne is a literary translator who has earned several awards, including the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Premio Valle Inclan. His recent translation of Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes was shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018.
Title: Adrift
Author: Wynne, Frank,Maalouf, Amin
ISBN: 9781912987108
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Publisher: World Editions Ltd
Publication Date: 2020-09-04
Number of Pages: 336
Weight: 0.3601 kg
With his consciously nurtured multiple identity, Maalouf is just the sort of interlocutor this period needs. He reaches deep into unmined seams of cultural history, scything elegantly through cliche and conventional models of received wisdom.
The writer and scholar delves back into his own history to analyze the tragic consequences of the shock prophesized by Samuel Huntington.
True change is possible: Maalouf shows us possible ways forward in magnificent prose filled with wisdom.
