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Charif Majdalani

Autor(a) de Moving the Palace

11+ Works 104 Membros 2 Reviews

Obras de Charif Majdalani

Moving the Palace (2007) 40 cópias
Beirut, 2020: Diary of the Collapse (2020) — Autor — 23 cópias
Histoire de la grande maison (2005) 12 cópias
villa des femmes (2015) 4 cópias
L'Empereur à pied (2017) 4 cópias
Mille origines (2023) 4 cópias
Des vies possibles (2020) 3 cópias

Associated Works

Granta 158: In the Family (2022) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1960
Sexo
male
Local de nascimento
Beirut, Lebanon

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Moving the Palace is a quirky little book about a Lebanese Protestant who goes to work for the British colonial administration in the Sudan the early twentieth century, and finds himself deep in the desert where he finds a fellow Lebanese merchant trying to find a buyer for an entire palace that's being transported piecemeal on the back of camels. Beyond that, there isn't much by way of a plot to this brief novel, but Majdalani's writing is vivid and often deadpan, dryly funny (there's one particularly funny scene satirising T.E. Lawrence).… (mais)
4 vote
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siriaeve | 1 outra resenha | Jul 7, 2017 |
A magnificent road trip! A Lebanese adventurer leaves his assignment with the British army to take over a perilous venture abandoned by another Lebanese adventurer. It's nothing less than moving an entire palace (in pieces) across deserts and seas from Tripoli to Beirut. By camel, mule, horse, and boat. In 1908. When the region is filled with unrest and feuding tribes. Not all is fighting--there are luscious banquets, merry story telling sessions, and a host of eccentric characters.
3 vote
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seeword | 1 outra resenha | May 29, 2017 |

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Obras
11
Also by
1
Membros
104
Popularidade
#184,481
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
2
ISBNs
33
Idiomas
3

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