Alien Souls (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Achmed Abdullah

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ISBN 10 : 1330500733 ISBN 13 : 9781330500736

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Cross‑cultural intrigue, fate, and alleyway nights collide in a sweeping tale of ambition and longing.

This gripping fiction mixes distant hills, feuds, and immigrant life in a city of old streets and new dreams. It follows a cast of vivid figures whose loyalties, loves, and secrets pull them toward a larger circle of fate that neither can escape. The prose blends exotic settings with human drama, creating a world where signals of danger and desire flash in the margins of everyday life.

- Meet hardened travelers and ambitious outsiders who carry ancient grievances into a modern, restless world
- Experience atmospheric scenes from wind‑scoured hills to crowded urban streets
- See how love, pride, and survival steer choices that echo across generations
- Feel the texture of cultures clashing and converging through sharp dialogue and evocative detail

Ideal for readers who enjoy richly peopled stories about identity, conflict, and the search for meaning in a changing world.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Bokhara, in the old quarter of the desert town that the natives call Bokhara-i-S hereef. He has a store in a bazaar not far from the Samarkand Gate, where he sells the gold-threaded brocades of Khiva and the striped Bokhariot belts that the caravanmen exchange for brick-pressed tea across the border in Chinese Turkestan, and where, methodically filling; his pipe with tobacco from the carved pumpkin-shell at his elbow, he praises the greatness of Russia, There, at noon every day, his ten-year-old son comes to him, bringing clean and well-spiced food from the market. Look at him! he says often, proudly pinching the supple arms of the lad, and exhibiting him as he would a pedigreed stallion. Sinews and muscles and a farseeing eye, and no nerves none at all. Because of which I give thanks to Allah the Wise-judging, the Opener of the Door of Knowledge with the Key of His Mercy. For one day my son will wear a plaited, green coat and a tall chugerma cap of white fur, and serve Russia. He will learn to shoot straight, very straight, and then, he adds, with a meaning smile, if he happens to be speaking to one of the three men whom he trusts, then he will desert. But he will return, perhaps, rapidly snapping his fingers to ward off misfortunes, he will return to his regiment, and he will not be very much punished.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.

Biographie de l'auteur

Achmed Abdullah was born Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff to a grand duke father and a highborn Afghani Muslim mother in czarist Russia. Raised in Afghanistan, where he assumed his Asian title of Prince Nadir Khan, he was educated at Eton and Oxford, then became a gentleman officer in the British army, keeping the peace along the Khyber Pass and in assorted colonies in Africa. He became a writer in the early 1900s, establishing the name of Achmed Abdullah as an erudite teller of thrilling stories and an elegant stylist whose work appeared in numerous periodicals and pulp magazines. Abdullah cultivated a romantic public image—the writer as dashing, exotic, and cosmopolitan—which lent an extra glamor to his work: the adventure fiction of farflung Asian and African outposts, upper-crust mysteries set in manor houses and penthouse apartments, and lurid tales of violence and drama in New York’s Chinatown. His name appeared with frequency on the covers of novels, short story collections, and popular histories. The Trail of the Beast (1919) was a spy thriller about a planned political assassination, set in a thrilling France of nightclubs, apache dancers, and promiscuous female agents. Night Drums (1921) concerned insurrection in Africa, a would-be black emperor, and an ancient mummy, and the bandaged body of the first man— Adam himself. Many of Abdullah’s American-set stories were tied to the exotic East or Africa, the “Dark Continent.” In The Bungalow on the Roof (1931), a ritzy New York apartment building contains on its rooftop a secret headquarters for an African cult, where wealthy New Yorkers go to satisfy their “diseased, degenerate craving after foul, bestial voodoo rites and worship . . .”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330500733
• ISBN 13: 9781330500736
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
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