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The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf

The First Century After Beatrice

Amin Maalouf with Dorothy S. Blair

192 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction science fiction reflective slow-paced
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A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant...

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