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Book Review
Feb. 23rd, 2025 01:23 pmNight of the Golden Butterfly
by Tariq Ali
This is the final novel in the Islam Quintet, and takes place in the 2010s. The narrator, Dara, is a Pakistani author now living in London. He chronicles both his past as a radical student in 1960s Lahore and his present in which he has various encounters and reconnections with his fellow students and Jindie, the woman he loved but was unable to marry.
This was an engaging if somewhat meandering novel. The narrator, his friends, and lovers are all very interesting, and his relationships with them are varied. The stories and anecdotes the narrator relates are good, by turns horrifying and entertaining. I just wish it all added up to a bit more than it does.
by Tariq Ali
This is the final novel in the Islam Quintet, and takes place in the 2010s. The narrator, Dara, is a Pakistani author now living in London. He chronicles both his past as a radical student in 1960s Lahore and his present in which he has various encounters and reconnections with his fellow students and Jindie, the woman he loved but was unable to marry.
This was an engaging if somewhat meandering novel. The narrator, his friends, and lovers are all very interesting, and his relationships with them are varied. The stories and anecdotes the narrator relates are good, by turns horrifying and entertaining. I just wish it all added up to a bit more than it does.
