... . Dem Meedchen huet si Lompen ugedoen an esou eng elle Sallef an d'Gesiicht geschmiert, datt suguer säin eegene Papp hatt net méi erkannt huet an et vum Schlass gejot huet. D'Elisa ass an den donkele Bësch era gelaf.

How can love survive its own disappearance? The desperate answer that Antonio Muñoz Molina proposes in this short, circular novella is a model of literary strategy and style, a splendid homage to Flaubert.

Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning, intergenerational saga.