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"La nuit descend sur Vienne et sur l'appartement où Franz Ritter, musicologue épris d'Orient, cherche en vain le sommeil, dérivant entre songes et souvenirs, mélancolie et fièvre, revisitant sa vie, ses emballements, ses rencontres et ses nombreux séjours loin de l'Autriche--Istanbul, Alep, Damas, Palmyre, Téhéran...--, mais aussi questionnant son amour impossible avec l'idéale et insaisissable Sarah, spécialiste de l'attraction fatale de...
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Babel volume 1259
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Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona, hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts -- a group he worked in Tangier, Morocco, not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father. Lakhdar's transformations -- from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner -- take place against the backdrop...