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Leo the African (Paperback)

by Amin Maalouf (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (22 Sep 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0349106002
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349106007
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 145,022 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The most entertaining education we could wish for...Leo the African is a celebration of the romance and power of the Arab world, its ideals and achievements - Daily Telegraph Maalouf's fiction offers both a model for the future and a caution, a way towards cultural understanding and an appaling measure of the consequences of failure. He is a voice which Europe cannot afford to ignore - Guardian


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From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, slave girls and princesses, encompassing the complexities of a world in a state of religious flux. Hasan too is touched by the instability of the era, performing his hadj to Mecca, then converting to Christianity, only to relapse back to the Muslim faith later in life. In re-creating his extraordinary experiences, Amin Maalouf sketches an irrisistible portrait of the Mediterranea world as it was nearly five centuries ago - the fall of Granada, the Ottoman conquest of Egypt, Renaissance Rome under the Medicis: all contribute to a background of spectacular colour, matched only by the picaresque adventures of Hasan's life.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, 7 Mar 2001
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A facinating read, and a beautiful account of North African/Spanish events of the late 15th Century. Maalouf is clearly a gifted writer and I look forward to reading more from him.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A page-turner, 4 Oct 2000
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This is a fascinating jaunt around the Med of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, filled with a wealth of knowledge of Moorish Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Constaninople, Italy...Refreshing in that you get a look at life through Islamic eyes, it also deals with obsessive love, ambition, revenge, princesses and slave girls, sultans and popes, pirates and imams. A great fairytale of a novel, it's even better if you read it, as I did, in a village in the mountains south of Granada.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful narrative + great historic setting, 22 Jan 2002
Wonderful book - you pick it up and find it hard to put down. Maalouf's prose is quite irresistible - you are enchanted by the characters and their lives. In the historic novel genre, this must be a top pick. Can't wait to read his other books...
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1.0 out of 5 stars Suffering in slow motion
Leo was chosen as a book club read and I make it a practice to be diligent in reading the books we're supposed to read and am usually respectful with my comments. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2007 by reading riot

5.0 out of 5 stars 15th century Mediterranean through Leo's eyes
Leo the African is a beautifully written novel. Leo takes us through his life story from his early childhood in Spain down to his teenager times in Morocco and finalising with his... Read more
Published on 18 Jul 2007 by Kivanc Emiroglu

5.0 out of 5 stars Leo The African
This has to be one of the most amazing books I have read in my life - Leo the African. It's a story of a 16th century Muslim traveller writer from Granada - Hassan Al Wazzan... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2006 by Ms. S. A. Ahsan

3.0 out of 5 stars Educational yet not quite wholesome enough
I find it hard to criticise this novel, as Maalouf has done an admirable job of dramatising an incredibly interesting period of North African/Spanish history. Read more
Published on 11 Jul 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Good account of the capture of Granada Spain in 1492
The first 75 pages have a fictionalised account of when Ferdinand and Isabel took control of Granada Spain and finally expelled the Arabs. Read more
Published on 26 Aug 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant. Intense and evocative
An brilliant and fascinating journey through the Mediteranean world of the sixteenth century. The colours, the sounds and the smells of love, power and cruelty burn into the... Read more
Published on 8 Dec 1998

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