{"product_id":"9781836743705","title":"Night of the Golden Butterfly : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNight 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 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 forces her to flee to the salons of intellectually  fashionable Paris, where she becomes an overnight celebrity, hailed as  the Diderot of the Islamic world; and there's Jindie, the Golden  Butterfly of the title, the narrator's first love. The daughter of a  Chinese family long settled in Lahore, Jindie is now married to his best  friend, a Republican heart surgeon in DC, whose children cannot forgive  him for saving the life of a much-despised politician.   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.    Night of the Golden Butterfly shows Ali in full flight, at once imaginative and intelligent, satirical and stimulating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookmonger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55365508235598,"sku":"9781836743705","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0874\/5795\/6174\/files\/9781836743705.jpg?v=1771849432","url":"https:\/\/thebookmongerbearsden.co.uk\/products\/9781836743705","provider":"The Bookmonger","version":"1.0","type":"link"}