On the isle of Antioch [electronic resource]

Maalouf, Amin2023

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Summary

-A total blackout hits a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere between France and the United States, with only two solitary inhabitants: Alec, a successful press artist, and Eve, the author of a cult bestseller, who hardly have any contact with each other. The world appears to be on the brink of nuclear war and the collapse of civilization seems imminent. Threats of nuclear conflict and large-scale terrorism were already looming. Cut off from the rest of the world, Alec and Eve find themselves dependent on each other -A suspenseful novel with mythological roots, by internationally renowned scholar Amin Maalouf, writer of prestigious non-fiction works as well as literary novels -Amin Maalouf was a journalist in Lebanon until the civil war in 1975, when he left for Paris with his family. He became a novelist whose historical characters span cultures and continents. His work has been translated into 40 languages-Maalouf is the author of several bestselling titles in the US, including The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, which sold 26,870 copies in the US-World Editions has published The Disoriented, a novel by Maalouf and Adrift, a work of non-fiction in 2020 -The paperback of Adrift sold 2,119 copies, of which 1,074 were sold in the US, 405 in Canada, 170 in Europe, 110 in Lebanon and 50 in Australia-The paperback of The Disoriented sold 2,531 copies, of which 1,140 were sold in the US, followed by Luxembourg 190, Germany 163, Australia 188, Lebanon 172, the Middle East 250 -High international sales, close to 50% for his previous books -Maalouf is a dream author to work with. Kind, available, fluent in English, fantastic at events with an exceptionally strong international profile-Foreign Rights Sales:o Arabic (Dar Al Farabi)o Bosnian (Buybook)o Spanish, Catalan (Alianza)o Dutch (Standaard)o Italian (La Nave di Teseo)o Korean (Somy Media)o Portuguese (Marcador)o Romanian (Polirom)o Serbian (Laguna)o Turkish (Yapi Kredi) -World-renowned writer Amin Maalouf is awake to the dangers of “the secret call of events that are about to happen,” according to the words of the poet Constantin Cavafy and many of his previous predictions have come true -The NYT hails Maalouf as “one of that small handful of writers, like David Grossman and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who are indispensable to us in our current crisis.” -As he outlines in Adrift and many of his published essays, Maalouf believes that our planet is drifting towards major crises that could harm all societies. He often writes of a global “sinking,” in which humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment and our health. In On the Isle of Antioch, his warning call for an awakening gets even louder, and he uses elements of philosophy, dystopian fiction, and romance to warn of political and ecological collapse