On the Isle of Antioch

by Amin Maalouf

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Pub Date Dec 05 2023 | Archive Date Dec 01 2023

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In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other.

"Lebanese-born French author Maalouf delivers an elegant portrait of a dying world. A beguiling, lyrical work of speculative fiction by a writer of international importance." —Kirkus Reviews, *Starred Review*

Alec, a press artist with an impressive track record, settles on a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean. He has little contact with his neighbor, a solitary woman who wrote a cult book years ago, before withdrawing from public life. That is, until a gigantic power failure cuts them off from the rest of the world, and all of a sudden they find themselves dependent on each other. The world appears to be on the brink of nuclear war and the collapse of civilization seems imminent. Just who are the mysterious friends of Empedocles, the gang of otherworldly protectors who came swooping in to interfere with the US presidency and cure all illness? Should we trust them? On the Isle of Antioch is a suspenseful novel with mythological roots, written in the dreamy language of the classics, by internationally renowned scholar Amin Maalouf.

In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend...

Advance Praise

Praise for Amin Maalouf

“Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.” —New York Times Book Review

“Amin Maalouf is one of that small handful of writers, like David Grossman and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who are indispensable to us in our current crisis.” —New York Times

“Maalouf’s fiction offers both a model for the future and a caution, a way towards cultural understanding and an appalling measure of the consequences of failure. His is a voice which Europe cannot afford to ignore.” —The Guardian

Praise for Amin Maalouf

“Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.” —New York Times Book Review

“Amin Maalouf is one of that small handful of writers, like David Grossman and...

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A dystopian novel about total collapse, for readers of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam and American War by Omar El Akkad
Advance galleys and digital...