Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali
Set in Granada in the late 15th century, this novel brings to life the turbulent period in Spain following 700 years of Muslim rule, and explodes conventional ideas about 1492. The author also wrote the plays "Moscow Gold", "Iranian Nights" and the novel "Redemption".
Tariq Ali is a writer and a filmmaker. He has written five novels and over a dozen books on world history and politics. His latest is the acclaimed The Clash of Fundamentalism: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. he is currently writing Bush in Babylon: Recolonizing Iraq. Howard Brenton was born in 1942 in Portsmouth, where his father was a policeman and a lay preacher. He had written several plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre before Romans in Britain (1980) was famously the cause of a failed prosecution by moral crusaders.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701139445 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701139447 |
| Title | Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree |
| Author | Tariq Ali |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1992-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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