Samarkand

When I was born on March 1, 1873... and if my parents didn't want to confuse me with this name from afar... "Omar", they postponed it to the second place so that if I wished, I could replace it with (O) [5 in Latin letters]... The inheritance that came to me in this way only awakened my curiosity in that ancient godfather, and at fifteen, I began to read everything related to him... and I learned not to see in the letter (O)... but an indelible residue of childish parental folly, until an encounter brought me back to my passion and directed my life with insistence on the footsteps of Khayyam." The details of this novel begin with these beginnings, as the author's insistence on investigating the biography of Omar Khayyam was a catalyst that allowed him to obtain this manuscript, from which Amin Maalouf wove a captivating narrative. His imagination soared through the historical manuscript, shedding light on the events of that era documented by Omar Khayyam, which were passed down by the librarians of Alamut from father to son. Through this, we learned about Khayyam's influence after his death and the transformation that befell the Assassins... and we were able to discover "The Rubaiyat of Khayyam" after it had become impossible in the absence of the manuscript, as hundreds of forged quatrains and "The Rubaiyat of Khayyam" became intertwined.