The Islam Quintet
Tariq Ali
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Éditeur:
Open Road Media
Open Road Media
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2014
2014
ISBN-13:
9781480448582
Description:
<DIV><B>Five nuanced and powerful historical novels depicting the clashes among Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the Crusades to twenty-first-century London.</B><BR /><BR /> Celebrated British-Pakistani journalist and author Tariq Ali takes a mind-expanding journey through the ages with these five acclaimed works of fiction, available now in one collection.<BR />  <BR /><B><I>Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree</I></B><B>: </B>“Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain” in “an enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve” (<I>The Independent</I>). For the doomed Moors, the fall of Granada and the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword.<BR />  <BR /><B><I>The Book of Saladin</I></B>: After Saladin reclaims the holy city of Jerusalem from the Crusaders, he turns to a Jewish scribe to record his story, which Edward Said calls “a narrative for our time, haunted by distant events and characters who are closer to us than we had dreamed.”<BR />  <BR /><B><I>The Stone Woman</I></B><B>: </B>“Ali paints a vivid picture of a fading world,” proclaims the<I> New York Times Book Review, </I>as a distant descendant of an exiled Ottoman courtier suffers a stroke in Istanbul, and his family rushes to his side to hear his last stories.<BR />  <BR /><B><I>A Sultan in Palermo: </I></B>In “a marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue, love, insurrection and manipulation,” cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi is caught between his friendship with King Roger of Sicily and the resentments of his fellow Muslims (<I>The Guardian</I>).<BR />  <BR /><B><I>Night</I></B><B><I> of the Golden Butterfly: </I></B>A Lahore-born writer living in London is called back to his homeland by an old friend who, at seventy-five, has finally fallen in love. “If Pakistan is a land of untold stories,” writes the <I>New Statesman</I>, Ali is “the country’s finest historian and critic.”<BR />  </DIV>