- Grab your current read.
- Open to a random page.
- Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
- Be careful not to include spoilers!
- Share the title & author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participiants can add the book to their to be read lists if they like your teasers!
My teaser today is from Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by the British-Pakistani writer and film-maker Tariq Ali. This is the first novel of his Islam Quintet tracing the history of Islam. Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree is set in Southern Spain during the first years of the 16th century. Granada has fallen to the Christians and Muslims of al-Andalus, Moorish Spain, are faced with some hard decisions:
"I am not sure that they will let us live in al-Andalus without converting to Christianity. Hind marrying Juan is a joke, but the future of the Banu Hudayl, of those who have lived with us, worked for us for centuries. That is what worries me deeply." [p. 22]
I had a very good reading month in January. Here's a little wrap up:
Books read: 11
Books read in English: 8
Books read in Finnish: 3
Books by Finnish writers read: 1
Fiction: 9
Nonfiction: 2
Books reviewed: 5
List of books read in January with links to my reviews:
-Carlson, Kristina: Maan ääreen
-Godden, Rumer: The River
-Kjaerstad, Jan: Rakkauden merkit (originally published in Norwegian)
-Manguel, Alberto: The Library at Night
-Marani, Diego: Sotilas ilman menneisyyttä (this novel, originally written in Italian, will be published in English in September with the title New Finnish Grammar)
-Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
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