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  <title><![CDATA[Balthasar's Odyssey: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>It is 1665, and all the signs and portents foretell that next year the Antichrist will appear and the world will come to an end.  Antiquarian merchant and sage Balthasar sets out in search of a rare book that may bring salvation to a distraught world, a mysterious work entitled The Hundredth Name.  In the course of his odyssey throughout the Mediterranean and beyond, Balthasar travels through countries in ruin, cities in flames, and stricken communities awaiting the Apocalypse. He encounters fear, falsehood, and disillusion, but he also discovers love at a time when he had given up all hope.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2001</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Balthasar's Odyssey: A Novel</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Amin Maalouf]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Prince Manoharun]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 03 23:27:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 05 18:09:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[pertama kali ngeliat buku ni merasa tertarik banged..judulnya itu yg bikin pengen baca.. Nama Tuhan Yang Keseratus..jadi pengen tau aj gitu ceritanya apa..dengan penasaran gw mulai membacanya...<br/><br/>dan ternyata buku ni merupakan catatan harian Seorang penduduk Gibelete asal Genoa bernama Bal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62094119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56710001">
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  <date_added>Tue May 19 23:11:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sebagai seorang Muslim, jelas judul buku ini sangat menggoda. Betapa tidak, biasanya hanya ada 99 nama Allah, tiba-tiba ada 1 nama lagi. Bisa dibayangkan isinya pasti seru, malah mengundang kontradiksi. Jika tidak memiliki dasar pemahaman yang kuat, bisa salah persepsi.Ini memang hanyalah sebuah nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56710001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42653681">
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 11 01:41:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 11 01:47:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aku baca terjemahannya yg diterbitin Serambi, Nama allah yang ke 100.<br/>Covernya bagus, dan menjanjikan banyak.<br/>Ceritanya mengenai Balthasar yang terdorong untuk mencari buku nama Allah yang ke 100. Perpaduan antara sinbad the Sailor, dan soul searching. Ceritanya mengalun, tapi kurang mengg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42653681">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 17 01:17:49 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 19 02:34:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Konon katanya karya fiksi Amin Maalouf lebih bagus daripada karya non-fiksinya.<br/>Dan itu memang betul, novel ini memang jauh lebih baik daripada In The Name of Identity...tapi tidak cukup bagus.<br/><br/>Ide cerita tentang kisruh ketika muncul ramalan tentang AntiChrist menjelang tahun 1666 se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35530689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51675249">
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 06 07:54:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting concept for a book. In 1666. a bookseller finally comes in possession of a book he only thought of as a wild rumor - a book that would save mankind from certain disaster.  Unfortunately, he lets it be sold to a good customer, then regrets it.  Since this year was said by many to be the e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51675249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43144385">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It helps me a lot to  understand the feeling part of the history during this time. I know it's mainly a romance but it's in fact really good. <br/>To choose the style of a diary is interesting to understand the way the main charactere understand the world. He is always torture between his reason and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43144385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41142784">
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 28 20:09:00 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In spite of the seemingly interesting content, the writing style is forgettable and bland.  The book is way too long and the journal format does not work well, and more than that, it lacks internal logic.  The narrator supposedly keeps losing his journal and starting new ones but they are all publis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41142784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30106481">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 13 22:44:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[sebenernya waktu baca kalo latarnya di turki dan sekitarnya dengan tema yang lumayan 'ajaib' (bayangin aja ada pedagang antik kliling2 eropa buat nyari nama ke-100 Asmaul Husna supaya dia selamet dari kiamat) aku jadi agak ragu juga bacanya. biasanya kan baca novel yang latarnya barat, kalo latarnya...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30106481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23496324">
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  <read_at>Sun May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 01 23:28:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Following through the diary of a man, who are always in doubts. Doubts to himself, his surrounding, and the nature, Balthasar's Odyssesy may somehow be caught in the boring reading, but Amin Malouf can prevent that from happening through his delicate writing skills, the use of words, and 'tasty' des...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23496324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49233065">
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 07:19:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 07:19:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[have to say it was book i just couldnt get my teeth into and had to give up after the fourth chapter]]></body>
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    <review id="56589085">
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  <date_added>Tue May 19 04:57:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[for Balthasar: too much suprise and accident to get the special book, hah? ]]></body>
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    <review id="54122225">
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 08:49:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[17th century merchant seeks book that will reveal the hundredth name of God.]]></body>
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    <review id="43777500">
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    <name><![CDATA[Meisa]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 20 22:10:14 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[fiksi sejarah yang membuat tanda tanya..]]></body>
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    <review id="40206170">
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    <name><![CDATA[resthi]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[berpetualang sekaliiii...]]></body>
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    <review id="22615487">
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    <body><![CDATA[Sebenarnya menarik, mengenai pencarian sebuah buku yang dipercaya oleh kalangan terbatas menceritakan mengenai &quot;nama Tuhan yang keseratus&quot;, alias lanjutannya &quot;Asmaul Husna&quot;. Buku itu antara mitos dan realita, membuat para pemburunya harus berkelana ke berbagai negara dengan memba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22615487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19066104">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bahwa judulnya ternyata tidak mengindikasikan isinya...bahwa bahkan judulnya, sesuatu yang amat dicari2, bahkan tidak terkuak di akhirnya. Buku ini lebih bercerita tentang kisah apa saja yang terjadi selama pencarian buku Mazandarani. Bahwa apa yang kita cari2 dan kita kejar2 belum tentu kita dapatk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19066104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really grew to love the depiction of Genoa through this novel.<br/><br/>Wide-ranging and picaresque.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[awalnya agak malas untuk membaca buku ini. tapi begitu halaman pertama selesai dilirik, saya terus penasaran dengan kelanjutannya. dan ternyata memang tidak mudah melahap kisah Balthasar. setiap kalimatnya mengundang saya untuk merenung dan langsung menuliskan perenungan itu. jadi saya membaca-menul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3892944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i've read and thoroughly enjoyed quite a few of amin maalouf's books so this one is no surprise. if you liked <strong>leo the african</strong> you'll probably like this one. i suppose i'll add a review when i've actually finished it (i'm a bit more than halfway now). <br/><br/>be warned. i don't read that much these...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10219403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Menurut gw novel ini agak membosankan karena ceritanya yang bertele-tele.<br/>Novel ini bercerita mengenai perjalanan panjang Balthasar sang saudagar buku yang berasal dari Gibelet. Ia pergi bertualang menjelajahi 3 benua demi menemukan buku berkekuatan magis yang dipercaya bisa menyelamatkan bumi ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5969943">more...</a>]]></body>
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