6/20/2023 0 Comments Origins by Amin Maalouf![]() ![]() ![]() Alternating between a third-person narrative and Adam’s journal entries and emails, this deeply engaging novel enacts through its characters Adam’s “ceaseless dialogue” with his conscience. The Disoriented, published in French in 2012 and at last in Frank Wynne’s assured English translation, is a profound reckoning with that existential choice, in the words of the protagonist, Adam, to leave a country in turmoil in order to “ensure my hands were clean”. The realisation drove him as a refugee to Paris, where he was last year awarded the Order of Merit for building bridges between east and west. ![]() Then a journalist fearful for his wife and child, he sensed that “ if somebody had given me a weapon, maybe I’d have become a murderer”. A min Maalouf, winner of the 1993 Prix Goncourt, witnessed a slaughter at the outbreak of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975. ![]()
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