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Night of the Golden Butterfly - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Night of the Golden Butterfly - A Novel (Hardcover)
Series: The Islam Quintet
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Loot Price R515
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Night of the Golden Butterfly concludes the Islam Quintet-Tariq
Ali's much lauded series of historical novels, over twenty years in
the writing, which has been translated into a dozen languages
Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish
Spain, the concluding novel moves between the cities of the
twenty-first century, from Lahore to London, from Paris to Beijing.
The narrator is rung one morning and reminded that he owes a debt
of honour. The creditor is Mohammed Aflatun-known as Plato-an
irascible but gifted painter living in a Pakistan where "human
dignity has become a wreckage." Plato, who once specialized in
stepping back from the limelight, now wants his life story written.
As the tale unravels we meet Plato's London friend Alice Stepford,
now a leading music critic in New York; Mrs. "Naughty" Latif, the
Islamabad housewife whose fondness for generals forces her to flee
to the salons of intellectually fashionable Paris, where she
becomes an overnight celebrity, hailed as the Diderot of the
Islamic world; and there's Jindie, the Golden Butterfly of the
title, the narrator's first love. The daughter of a Chinese family
long settled in Lahore, Jindie is now married to his best friend, a
Republican heart surgeon in DC, whose children cannot forgive him
for saving the life of a much-despised politician. Interwoven with
this chronicle of contemporary life is the turbulent history of
Jindie's family. Her great forebear, Du Wenxiu, led a Muslim
rebellion in Yunnan in the nineteenth century and ruled the region
from his capital Dali for almost a decade as Sultan Suleiman. Night
of the Golden Butterfly shows Ali in full flight, at once
imaginative and intelligent, satirical and stimulating.
General
Imprint: |
Verso Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The Islam Quintet |
Release date: |
April 2010 |
First published: |
April 2010 |
Authors: |
Tariq Ali
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Dimensions: |
209 x 164 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
275 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84467-611-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
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LSN: |
1-84467-611-0 |
Barcode: |
9781844676118 |
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