Title : The Rock of Tanios - Amin Maalouf - book

Summary :

Prix ​​Goncourt 1993. The story of this novel revolves around a famous figure throughout the Middle East, of whom no one knows whether he was real or legendary: Tanios-Kichk; and when Amin Maalouf begins his story, this surname refers to a rock on which children are not allowed to play. Tanios had once murdered a prelate who had "stolen" a woman from him. Subsequently, Tanios wandered the Mediterranean before falling into a trap set by the family of the said prelate thirty years after the murder of their ancestor. Tanios is murdered, then transformed into a rock in the region of the Lebanon Mountains... One could say that this legend is the subject of this novel. However, it is only the starting point... The book that we are going to read, in fact, is the investigation led by a narrator whose family was involved in the assassination of Tanios-Kichk. From then on, in a learned and adventurous novelistic construction, the reader undertakes a great journey whose theme could be summed up as follows: how and why are legends born?

• EAN : 9782246462712
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