Book 2011
Balthasar's Odyssey
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- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Religion
- End of the world
- Fiction
- Voyages and travels
- Merchants
- Name
- God
- Lost books
In 1665, with prophecies and portents foretelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest to find a rare book that could hold the key to the world's salvation.
Description: 391 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Other Titles: Périple de Baldassare.
Responsibility: Amin Maalouf ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.