The Lost

Author's name: Amin Maalouf

“In The Lost Ones, I draw on my own youth in a very literal way. I lived that time with friends who believed in a better world. Although the heroes of this novel bear no resemblance to real people, they are not entirely imaginary. I have drawn from my dreams, fantasies, and regrets as much as from my memories.” The heroes of this novel were inseparable in their youth, then dispersed, quarreled, and separated, and will be reunited on the occasion of one of their deaths. Some refused to leave their homelands, others emigrated to the United States, Brazil, or France, and their paths took them in different directions. What else do the liberated hotel owner, the entrepreneur who made a fortune, or the monk who withdrew from the world and devoted himself to meditation have in common? Some shared memories and an incurable nostalgia for a time gone by.