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Night of the Golden Butterfly (häftad, eng)

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Night of the Golden Butterfly (häftad, eng)

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Produktbeskrivning

Night of the Golden Butterfly concludes the Islam Quintet—Tariq Ali’s much lauded series of historical novels, translated into more than a dozen languages, that has been twenty years in the writing. Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, the latest 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 leads to her flight to the salons of intellectually fashionable Paris, where she is hailed as the Diderot of the Islamic world; and there’s Jindie, the Golden Butterfly of the title, the narrator’s first love.

Interwoven with this chronicle of contemporary life is the turbulent history of Jindie’s family. Her great forebear, Dù Wénxiù, 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 reveals Ali in full flight, at once imaginative and intelligent, satirical and stimulating.


Format Häftad Omfång 288 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Verso Books Utgivningsdatum 2015-07-07 ISBN 9781781680063

Artikel.nr.

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Egenskaper

Slag

Fiktion

Språkversion

Engelska

Bokomslagstyp

Pocket

Antal sidor

288 sidor

Skrivet av

Tariq Ali

Utgivare

Verso

Släpp datum

07/07/2015

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

9781781680063

Minsta orderkvantitet

1 styck

Vikt & dimension

Höjd

196,8 mm

Verso Books

Night of the Golden Butterfly (häftad, eng)

229 kr

229 kr

Få kvar

Tis, 7 jan - ons, 8 jan


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Öppet köp till och med 7/1-25


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