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   A la sombra del granado

   • Tariq Ali

   • 286 páginas
   • 11 horas de lectura

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   Novela apasionante y estremecedora, “A la sombra del granado” es la incomparable crónica de un desgarramiento: el de los musulmanes que permanecieron en sus tierras tras la culminación de la Reconquista en 1492 y a los cuales el decreto de conversión promulgado diez años más tarde llevó a la diáspora, al ocultamiento o a una frustrante decisión. A través de los avatares de una familia morisca del reino de Granada, Tariq Ali pinta un fresco inolvidable de esos días decisivos en que, con un telón de fondo presidido por la ominosa figura del cardenal Cisneros, las hogueras inquisitoriales, espías, intrigas y escaramuzas, declina lentamente la luz de una civilización espléndida y una convivencia secular de culturas y religiones se ve abocada a una inexorable extinción.

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   The Book of Saladin

   • Tariq Ali

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   The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin grants Ibn Yakub permission to talk to his wife and retainers so that he might present a full portrait in the Sultan’s memoirs. A series of interconnected stories follows, tales brimming over with warmth, earthy humor and passions in which ideals clash with realities and dreams are confounded by desires.At the heart of the novel is an affecting love affair between the Sultan’s favored wife, Jamila, and the beautiful Halina, a later addition to the harem. The novel charts the rise of Saladin as Sultan of Egypt and Syria and follows him as he prepares, in alliance with his Jewish and Christian subjects, to take Jerusalem back from the Crusaders. This is a medieval story, but much of it will be uncannily familiar to those who follow events in contemporary Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad. Betrayed hopes, disillusioned soldiers and unrealistic alliances form the backdrop to The Book of Saladin .

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   La mujer de piedra

   • Tariq Ali

   • 357 páginas
   • 13 horas de lectura

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   Estamos cerca de Estambul, en 1899, en el palacio que un antiguo amigo del sultán, caído en desgracia, hizo construir después de que este decretara su destierro de la corte, y que durante doscientos años ha pertenecido a sucesivas generaciones de la familia. Nilofer, hija de Iskander Bajá, regresa después de nueve años de ausencia con su hijo. Allí, a la sombra de las familiares paredes del viejo edificio, en mitad de los sensuales olores del antiguo jardín y del vecino mar, se reencontrará con los miembros de su familia, con nuevos y atractivos personajes, miembros todos ellos de una sociedad que vive su decadencia. El regreso moverá a Nilofer a desgranar sus recuerdos y a escuchar de nuevo las viejas historias de la familia Pero igual de importante que su reencuentro con familia, personas y relatos es su reencuentro con "La mujer de piedra", una antiquísima estatua que se levanta en el huerto y que es la depositaria de los secretos, confidencias y consultas de toda la familia...

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   A Sultan in Palermo

   • Tariq Ali

   • 256 páginas
   • 9 horas de lectura

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   The year is 1153. The Normans are ruling Siqqiliya, but Arab culture and language dominate the island and the court. Sultan Rujari surrounds himself with Muslim intellectuals, several concubines, and an administration presided over by gifted eunuchs. This fourth novel in Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet is set in medieval Palermo, a Muslim city.

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   Night of the Golden Butterfly (Vol. 5) (The Islam Quintet)

   • Tariq Ali

   • 288 páginas
   • 11 horas de lectura

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   "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 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 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."--Publisher description

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