In the late seventeenth century, Poncet, a French herbalist, travels; To live in Cairo, one of the centers of an unusual alliance between the Ottoman Sultanate and one of the European kingdoms: France.
Although he works in secret, Because he does not have a legal certificate, his fame reaches the French consul, in whom he finds the ideal person to lead a secret embassy from the French king to the Negus, King of Abyssinia, whose declared mission is to treat the Negus, while it seeks to restore French-Catholic control over Abyssinia, in a time of religious and expansionist conflicts. Which the European kingdoms are fighting among themselves.
Poncet soon discovers that the exceptional circumstances of his journey to achieve the goals of the King of France and the Pope are - alone - the solution to the exceptional obstacles that separate him from the one he loves.
In his work, which won the Goncourt Prize for First Novel and the Mediterranean Prize, Ruffin does not content himself with presenting historical facts, but rather takes us with him on a journey full of life between the neighborhoods of Cairo, the mountains of Abyssinia, and the palaces of France. To tell an exciting adventure about love, friendship, and sacrifice in an era full of conflicts, conspiracies, and betrayals.
This book contains a translation of a number of television interviews with some of the most famous Latin American writers and poets, some of whom left our world leaving a great literary legacy, and some of whom are still with us today, enriching our lives with their cultural production.
The topics of these interviews varied between shedding light on the details of these writers’ personal lives and their biography and intellectual biography, to their critical opinions regarding their literary experiences and the experiences of some other writers.
Some of these interviews were conducted by media professionals and journalists on television programs, or were meetings that brought together writers with each other, such as Márquez’s interview with Neruda.
We hope that this book will be a window to discover new aspects about writers who enriched our culture and made our world wider.
The book will take you on a journey to travel through different stages of life that most of us have experienced, such as the work environment, the impact of social networking sites on our private and professional lives, as well as some topics related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the addition of some of my own touches that mimic my point of view and convictions, to be the captain of this short, enjoyable journey. Similar to the saying: (The world is a book, whoever does not travel through it sees only one page), I say:
The book is a world of ideas, and whoever does not read it does not think.
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