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The Flying Sheikh

Najib Alamuddin

Biographies & Memoirs

Quartet Bks.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

In Place of Fear

Business & Money

Aneurin Bevan

Economics

Set in the Islamic Empire in 785 AD, a tale of power, war, love and religion unfolds. It begins with Arab Harun-al-Rashid becoming Caliph of the Empire. Harun soon falls in love with a Persian man, Ja'far, but is devastated to find the love is unrequited. Ja'far is in love with the Caliph's sister, Abassa. Harun allows the couple to marry, but forbids the consummation of the marriage. His order is defied and Abassa soon gives birth to twins. They have betrayed their absolute leader and will suffer the consequences. Catherine Hermary-Vieille explores the restrictions of life in the Islamic court and the traditional rites of marriage and religion. With the struggles of man and woman pervading the pages, The Grand Vizier of the Night - reissued a quarter of a century after Quartet Books first published the book in English - is a profound commentary on the human condition.

Grand Vizier of the Night

Literature & Fiction

Catherine Hermary-Vieille

Contemporary

A Soviet heretic

English (translation) 
Original Russian

A Soviet Heretic

Evgenii Zamiatin

This is a coming-of-age novel, something that in other languages is expressed more pointedly as the novel of education.

Garden Where the Brass Band Played

Vestdijk, Simon

Literary

In March 1944, eleven divisions of German troops marched into Hungary. Thousands of Jews were rounded up and deported to death camps. Desperately, they sought foreign diplomatic relations, false identity papers, and hiding places. Vali RÃ¡cz was a successful singer and film actress, the darling of the Hungarian public. Since she was young, beautiful, and safely Aryan, the Nazis represented no particular threat to her, but she was horrified by the persecution of the Jews, many of whom were friends and mentors. Risking her own life, she turned her villa in Buda into a secret refuge. Monica Porter traces both the life of her remarkable and courageous mother and a fascinating period in Hungarian history. In September 1991, the Jewish people's highest expression of gratitude was conferred upon Vali RÃ¡cz in Jerusalem: the title of 'Righteous among the Nations'.

Deadly Carousel

Page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Past caring?

Juan Carlos Onetti

Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis

Tunis has a long  history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language  is firmly rooted among its inhabitants and most embrace the morals and  culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by  three Beldi women, members of a historic and highly civilized  community, the city's traditional elite. Tale-telling is important to  all Beldi women, and the book examines its role in their shared world  and its significance in the lives of the three tellers.          Tales are told at communal gatherings to share and pass on Beldi  women's secret lore of love, marriage and destiny. Ghaya Sa'diyya and  Kheira tell stories which echo their life experience and have deep  meanings for them. Their tales reflect accepted moral codes, and yet  many depict attitudes, relationships, and practices that contradict  established norms. Whereas Kheira presents a conservative and moralistic  view of the role of women, Sa'diyya's heroines are alive with sexual  energy, and Ghaya's stories also offer racy and rebellious comments on a  woman's lot.  These contradictory visions offer a kaleidoscopic view of  the position of women in the rich life of a historic North African  city.

Behind closed doors: Women's oral narratives in Tunis

History

Africa

The Kidnapping Of The President

Charles Bradley Templeton

Ornette Coleman: The harmolodic life

John Litweiler

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