About this title: Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem--and audaciously imagines a fourth, "the eternal latecomer"' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780394726182ISBN:0394726189
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Great reading condition, clean pages, edge wear, spine crease, dog eared, tradepaperback. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 255 p. Aventura: The Vintage Library of Contemporary World Literatu. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Aventura/Vintage
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780394726182ISBN:0394726189
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 255 pgs in vg reading condition w/age spotting on outer edges; remainder mark on top edges; cover has slight wear on edges. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN-13:9780385177238ISBN:0385177232
Description: Fine (F) in Very Good jacket. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. Minor edgewear to cover and a 1/2' tear to the top edge of spine. Near Fine with very good dust Jacket. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Methuen
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780413533708ISBN:0413533700
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Methuen
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780413533708ISBN:0413533700
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