Doğu'dan Uzakta

The past... is it still where you left it?

An unforgettable "coming home" novel by Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf's highly anticipated new novel "The East" Far from It tells the story of a group of friends who return to their homeland, which they abandoned amid the cruelty of fate and history.

Far from the East, a novel of confrontation: A group of friends who spent the best periods of their youth together, dispersed to different places after the civil war broke out in their country, and returned to their country years later for the funeral of one of their old friends... In Far from the East, which includes very striking observations about the destruction brought by the Lebanese Civil War and the cultural, historical and social problems of the Middle East geography, although it is not stated explicitly, Maalouf again does what he knows best: tells about the East.
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"The defeated always tend to present themselves as innocent victims. But this does not quite fit the truth, they are not innocent at all. They are guilty because they were defeated. They are guilty against their own people, their own civilization. They are guilty only of the rulers." I'm not talking about me, you, all of us. If we are the losers of history today, if we are humiliated both in our own eyes and in the eyes of the whole world, it is not only the fault of others, but primarily our fault."



Page Number: 460

Printing Year: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publishing House : Yapı Kredi Publications

Number of Pages : 460

First Printing Year : 2012