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Night of the Golden Butterfly A Novel

Ali, Tariq
Heftet / 2010 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844676545
Publisert
2010-10-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
378 gr
Høyde
206 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Ali, Tariq

Biographical note

TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics--including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome--as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.

Night of the Golden Butterfly A Novel

Ali, Tariq
Heftet / 2010 / Engelsk
Ali, Tariq
Heftet / 2010 / Engelsk
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Ali spins metaphors, re-establishes certain truths, shines a light on issues shrouded in ignorance. He enthralls, entertains, instructs. This is high art.

Le Figaro

A richly woven tapestry that merits comparison with Naguib Mahfouz's <i>Cairo Trilogy</i>.

Kirkus Reviews

Tales of anguish, longing, lust, and love ... Ali paints a vivid picture of a fading world.

New York Times Book Review

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Grippingly well told, brilliantly paced ... a narrative for our time.

- Edward Said,

If Pakistan is a land of untold stories, whispered conspiracy theories and closed-door mutinies, then thank heavens for Tariq Ali, whose access to its innermost secret chambers has made him the country's finest historian and critic.

- Fatima Bhutto, New Statesman

All human frailty and nobility is here-an imaginative tour de force.

Sunday Telegraph

Ali has satisfyingly and entertainingly concluded his Islam Quintet, a brilliant project unearthing the intellectual, sexual, artistic, and political histories heretofore kept out of mainstream conversation by both conservative Islamists and their former allies, and current enemies, in the West.

- Charles Demers, Georgia Straight

Ali pays perfect attention to detail, reminding the reader of the merits of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Whether describing the bonds of friendship, the sights and sounds of Lahore or the state of Fatherland in the throes of a military dictatorship, the writer's grip on detail never slackens.

Karachi Herald

Offers great insight into the history and culture of the Muslim world.

- Mark Knoblauch, Booklist

Wonderfully exuberant and mischievous... [a] jewel box of a novel.

- Aamer Hussein, Independent

A novelist of distinction ... Ali offers a persuasive account of the corruption of contemporary Pakistan, especially the brutal sexual politics, and his wry, ruminative account of lifelong friendship rings with truth.

- Michael Arditti, Daily Mail

Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, Night of the Golden Butterfly 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 honor. 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 into 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; 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 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.
Les mer
The final volume in Tariq Ali's acclaimed cycle of historical novels.
The final volume in Tariq Ali's acclaimed cycle of historical novels, The Islam Quintet

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Ali spins metaphors, re-establishes certain truths, shines a light on issues shrouded in ignorance. He enthralls, entertains, instructs. This is high art.

Le Figaro

A richly woven tapestry that merits comparison with Naguib Mahfouz's <i>Cairo Trilogy</i>.

Kirkus Reviews

Tales of anguish, longing, lust, and love ... Ali paints a vivid picture of a fading world.

New York Times Book Review

Se alle

Grippingly well told, brilliantly paced ... a narrative for our time.

- Edward Said,

If Pakistan is a land of untold stories, whispered conspiracy theories and closed-door mutinies, then thank heavens for Tariq Ali, whose access to its innermost secret chambers has made him the country's finest historian and critic.

- Fatima Bhutto, New Statesman

All human frailty and nobility is here-an imaginative tour de force.

Sunday Telegraph

Ali has satisfyingly and entertainingly concluded his Islam Quintet, a brilliant project unearthing the intellectual, sexual, artistic, and political histories heretofore kept out of mainstream conversation by both conservative Islamists and their former allies, and current enemies, in the West.

- Charles Demers, Georgia Straight

Ali pays perfect attention to detail, reminding the reader of the merits of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Whether describing the bonds of friendship, the sights and sounds of Lahore or the state of Fatherland in the throes of a military dictatorship, the writer's grip on detail never slackens.

Karachi Herald

Offers great insight into the history and culture of the Muslim world.

- Mark Knoblauch, Booklist

Wonderfully exuberant and mischievous... [a] jewel box of a novel.

- Aamer Hussein, Independent

A novelist of distinction ... Ali offers a persuasive account of the corruption of contemporary Pakistan, especially the brutal sexual politics, and his wry, ruminative account of lifelong friendship rings with truth.

- Michael Arditti, Daily Mail

Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, Night of the Golden Butterfly 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 honor. 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 into 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; 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 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.
Les mer
The final volume in Tariq Ali's acclaimed cycle of historical novels.
The final volume in Tariq Ali's acclaimed cycle of historical novels, The Islam Quintet

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844676545
Publisert
2010-10-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
378 gr
Høyde
206 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Ali, Tariq

Biographical note

TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics--including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome--as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.

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