Michael Arditti on Night of the Golden Butterfly for the Daily Mail

Night of the Golden Butterfly reviewed by Michael Arditti for the Daily Mail, May 21, 2010

Tariq Ali may still be best known as a 1960s political firebrand but, in latter years, he has reinvented himself as a novelist of distinction. Night of the Golden Butterfly is the fifth volume of his Islam Quintet. Having traced the tortuous relations between the Muslim world and the West in key historical eras, he now takes on the fraught task of tackling it in the present day.

Switching between...