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Cargando... Moving the Palace (2007)por Charif Majdalani
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 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). ( ) 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. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"At the dawn of the 20th century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan. The protagonist soon takes charge of this hoard or architectural fragments, ferrying the dismantled landmark through Sudan, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, attempting to return to his native Beirut with this moveable real estate. Along the way, he encounters skeptic sheikhs, suspicious tribal leaders, bountiful feasts, pilgrims bound for Mecca and T.E. Lawrence in a tent. This is a captivating modern-day Odyssey in the tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux." -- back cover. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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