Magda Szabó EAST AIRPORTS - Amin Maalouf
The novel, through the history of the last descendant of the imperial Ottoman traces the historical events that have marked the politics of the Middle East since the fall of the Ottoman Empire until the birth of the State of Israel and the civil war in Lebanon. Ossyan, Ottoman prince, who was born into a family intolerant of ethnic divisions, he finds himself a hero of the French Resistance. While the fight to free France by the Nazis, he met Clara, a Jewish woman to fall in love with her. With her lived her revolution: he, a Muslim, married a Jewish woman at a time when the whole world is resigned to see Arabs and Jews killing each other.
The meeting for the discussion of this book will be Friday, May 28 at the home of Joseph
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