the burden of the south

One of my favourite books of all times is "The First Century after Beatrice" by Amin Maalouf.
I have started reading Maalouf's books with Semekand and have always been impressed with the well-researched, perfectly-written historically based books of him. But in this novel, he writes about the future (the narrator is a scientist, a lover, and a father in the last century before and the first century after his daughter is born) and he nicely places politics of cloning and gender relations in a context of both the the global (North-South) and individual (embedded in a family).
Looking at this photo, I wanted to re-read the book, and hence thought I should share...