num_pages: 288
description: Tanios was a child of the mountains of Lebanon in the 1880s when the Egyptian Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination and the British and French plotted with and against each other. Amin Maalouf's novel, The Rock of Tanios, begins with a recollection of the rock on which Tanios was last seen sitting and weaves together the strands of the fascinating legend of his disappearance. Tanios was the illegitimate son of a powerful Sheik whose every action brought chaos into his village. When Tanios's adopted father caused the death of a powerful political rival, he and his son together fled their homeland. In hiding, they became entangled with international spies and politicians; Tanios soon took on the roll of intermediary between dueling European and Middle Eastern powers.
language: English
title: The Rock of Tanios
titlecomplete: The Rock of Tanios
genres: France, Historical, Roman, Cultural, Lebanon, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 7061
places: Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, Ottoman Empire
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Prix Goncourt
publisher: Abacus Books