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  Balthasar's Odyssey (Hardback) By (author) Amin Maalouf, Volume editor Euan Cameron, Translated by Barbara Bray

  

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  Short Description for Balthasar's OdysseyIn the Koran there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of 1666, the Year of the Beast, Balthasar Embriaco embarks on a quest to find out whether it does. Merely to know this most secret of the names of God will, Balthasar believes, ensure he is saved.
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  • Publisher: The Harvill Press
  • Published: 05 September 2002
  • Format: Hardback 448 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781860469923 ISBN 10: 1860469922
  • Sales rank: 1,263,716

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• A journey across cultures and civilisations in search of spiritual salvation and literary enlightenment. In the Koran there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of the apocalyptic "Year of the Beast", 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant embarks on a quest to find the answer. He sets out on a journey that will take him across the breadth of the civilized world, making his way to Constantinople and on to Smyrna and Aleppo before embarking for the Isle of Chios and sailing through the Mediterranean, via Genoa and Lisbon, arriving in London shortly before the outbreak of the Great Fire. The purpose of Balthasar's expedition is to search for a copy of the rarest of books, one entitled "The One Hundredth Name". Merely to know this most secret of the names of God will, Balthasar believes, ensure he is saved.