{"product_id":"night-of-the-golden-butterfly-tariq-ali-9781781680063","title":"Night of the Golden Butterfly","description":"\u003ci\u003eNight of the Golden Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e 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, D  W nxi , 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. \u003ci\u003eNight of the Golden Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Ali in full flight, at once imaginative and intelligent, satirical and stimulating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tariq Ali\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 178168006X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781680063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Tariq Ali","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46640650780927,"sku":"9781781680063","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06590ed2-3b42-4b18-9414-c603c9db329c.jpg?v=1740670181","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/night-of-the-golden-butterfly-tariq-ali-9781781680063","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}