Origins: A Memoir

A Lebanese-born journalist chronicles his family's history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in this epic memoir—"An extraordinary achievement" (Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati).

"A journey well worth taking, an elegant meditation on mortality and our relationship to the past." —Juliet Wittman, The Washington Post Book World

Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning, intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the ninet...