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    Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: A Novel
    Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: A Novel
    Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: A Novel
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    Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: A Novel

    By Tariq Ali

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    “Tariq Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain . . . real history as well as fiction . . . a book to be relished and devoured” (The Independent).
      The savagery of the Reconquest tore apart the world of the Banu Hudayl family. For the doomed Muslims of late-fifteenth-century Spain, the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword. Capturing the brutality of a war both military and cultural—and the price paid by the innocent—Tariq Ali opens his Islam Quintet with a harrowing and profound historical fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateOct 15, 2013
    ISBN9781480448537
    Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: A Novel
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    Tariq Ali

    Writer, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore and was educated at Oxford University, where he was president of the Oxford Union (a position subsequently occupied by Benazir Bhutto). He was a prominent leader of opposition to the war in Vietnam. Today he writes regularly for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Nation and The London Review of Books and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.  He has written more than a dozen books including non-fiction such as Can Pakistan Survive? The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Bush in Babylon and Pirates of the Caribbean, and fiction including Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, The Stone Woman and A Sultan in Palermo, as well scripts for both stage and screen. He lives in London.

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    • 5/5
      A trip to another time and another culture, masterfully written. I fell in love with the family and their lives. Too often in English we are only exposed to one side of the story and that is sugar coated. Here in the west we have forgotten much of the history of our long engagement with Islam, although now we are on the paying end of the karma. Though our sufferings pale beside the sufferings Muslims inflict on one another today. Odd as it may seem, this was an enjoyable read, though I knew only tragedy could mark its end.
    • 4/5
      The writing style was a little tough at times, and the poetry is far from excellent, but overall I would recommend the book to those interested in history, especially that of Moorish Spain around the time of Reconquista. The book is very emotional, and had me close to tearing up by the end. It also brings forth much anger at the atrocities committed in the named of "Virgin Mary." This book has given me the final push to read Islamic literature and dabble in Arabic.

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