The Disoriented

Amin Maalouf, Frank Wynne

• Publisher: World Editions
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781642860580
• eBook ISBN: 9781642860627
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern Literature
• Index: Literature

"A thoughtful, philosophically rich story that probes a still-open wound." — Kirkus Reviews

"Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor." — The New York Times Book Review

One night, a phone rings in Paris. Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago. Exiled in France, Adam has been leading a peaceful life as a respected historian, but back among the milk-white mountains of the East his past soon catches up with him. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life—and some now have blood on their hands. Loyalty, identity, and the clash of cultures and beliefs are at the core of this long-awaited novel by the French-Lebanese literary giant Amin Maalouf.

Table of contents

• The First Day
• The Second Day
• The Third Day
• The Fourth Day
• The Fifth Day
• The Sixth Day
• The Seventh Day
• The Eighth Day
• The Ninth Day
• The Tenth Day
• The Eleventh Day
• The Twelfth Day
• The Thirteenth Day
• The Fourteenth Day
• The Fifteenth Day
• The Sixteenth Day
• On the Design