Recent Book Launches:
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Please contact us if you have a book which you would like to launch in the surroundings of our newly refurbished shop. Contact us for more details
Jonathan Fenby: The Dragon Throne
Glyn Ford : North Korea On The Brink - Struggle For Survival
Nora Armani: Journey To Arafat : Armenian Poetry DVD
Sasha Su-Ling Welland: A Thousand Miles of Dreams: the Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (family biography)
Kerry Brown (Chatham House): Struggling Giant: China in the Twentieth Century
Frank Dikötter: Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China
Frances Wood: The First Emperor of China
Tim Beal: North Korea, The Struggle against American Power
Jim Hoare & Susan Pares: North Korea in the 21st Century
David Wong: The Evergreen Tea House (Chinese novel)
Patricia Laurence: Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes (Anglo-Chinese cultural connections)
Antony Wynn: Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes - Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy
Verso Books and Arthur Probsthain Bookshop invite you to a reading by Sabiha Al Khemir, author of
The Blue Manuscript
"Al Khemir seduces readers with the manuscript’s mythical beauty and the philosophy of its art form” Independent
Monday, 16th March at 6:00pm
Arthur Probsthain Bookshop, 41 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3PE
The Blue Manuscript will be available at a special price of £15 (RRP £17.99).
Sabiha Al Khemir will be available to sign books.
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The Blue Manuscript is the ultimate prize for any collector of Islamic treasures. But does it still exist, and if so, can it be found? In search of answers to these questions, an assortment of archaeologists heads for a remote area of Egypt, where they work with local villagers to excavate a promising site.
Interspersed with the testimony of the early medieval calligrapher who created the Blue Manuscript, Sabiha Al Khemir's subtle, graceful narrative builds into a rich tapestry of love, hope, despair, greed, fear and betrayal. Intensified at every turn by the uneasy relationship between Islam past and present, and between Islam and the West, The Blue Manuscript is a novel which will resonate long after the astonishing solution to its mystery has finally been revealed.
Sabiha Al Khemir was born in Tunisia. She is an author, illustrator and Islamic art historian. She has also written and presented television documentaries. She is the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar.
Please RSVP to arthurprobsthain@hotmail.com