Night of the Golden Butterfly
A Novel
$31.19
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2026
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836743705 |
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| ISBN-10: | 183674370X |
| Author: | Tariq Ali |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 241g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | The Islam Quintet |
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Critics Review
Wonderfully exuberant and mischievous… [a] jewel box of a novel * Independent *
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 *
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 *
Tariq Ali
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. He has also written five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. Ali is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.
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