Charif Majdalani. (2017). Moving the Palace. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Charif Majdalani. 2017. Moving the Palace. Blackstone Publishing.

Charif Majdalani, Moving the Palace. Blackstone Publishing, 2017.

Charif Majdalani. Moving the Palace. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2017.

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     Charif Majdalani, born in Lebanon in 1960, is often compared to a Lebanese Proust. Majdalani lived in France from 1980 to 1993 and now teaches French literature at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. The original French version of his novel Moving the Palace won the 2008 François Mauriac Prize from the Académie Francaise as well as the Prix Tropiques.

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     Edward Gauvin has received prizes and fellowships including those awarded by PEN America, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright program. His work has won the John Dryden Translation Prize and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award. He has translated over 200 graphic novels.

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese adventurer leaves the Levant to explore 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 of 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.

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     April 10, 2017
     Samuel Ayyad, a Lebanese Protestant, becomes obsessed with transporting a disassembled palace across the Middle East in this charming and gently humorous historical novel. In the early 20th century, Samuel moves to Sudan to seek wealth using his language skills to interpret for the British army. While traveling to shore up British dominance of the region, he meets a merchant trying to find a buyer for the small palace he has purchased, taken apart, and strapped to the backs of a caravan of camels. Taken with this project, Samuel becomes a partner and uses British army gold to grease enough local gears to avoid violence and theft. As the caravan drivers and even the merchant lose faith in the quest, Samuel decides to take the palace back home to Lebanon, only to be stymied by the outbreak of World War I. Majdalani’s writing sparkles as he relates Samuel’s picaresque and often funny schemes to get back to Lebanon through hostile territory. The narrator, Samuel’s grandchild, periodically interjects to offer just enough history of the region to keep less familiar readers on track. Those looking for an enjoyable and brisk literary adventure will be very satisfied.

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