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Original title Les Échelles du Levant Language French Published in English 1999 Originally published 1996 Page count 298 Publisher Éditions Grasset | 4/5 Goodreads Country France Lebanon Publication date 1996 Pages 298 ISBN 9782246497714 Translator Alberto Manguel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ports of Call (French: Les Échelles du Levant) is a 1991 novel by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. The narrative follows a married couple consisting of a Muslim man and a Jewish woman, Ossyane and Clara, who become separated after World War II.
Reception
William Ferguson wrote in The New York Times wrote that the protagonists' "marriage is presented here as an exemplary rejection of suspicion and hatred between peoples, most particularly in the Middle East. Perhaps the author's fondness for allegory is the reason Ossyane's tale sounds more like polished writing than real speech, and why the characters often seem more like ideas than people."
References
Ports of Call (Maalouf novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA