King: An Epic Novel by Riad Nourallah, A Review by Quartet Books

King: An Epic Novel by Riad Nourallah from Quartet Books

A prince in pre-Islamic Arabia must

leave his carefree life to avenge the

murder of his father by a rival Arab

tribe allied to Persia. Betrayed from

within and without, he travels to

Constantinople, the ‘New Rome’,

where, at the imperial court of

Justinian and Theodora, he pleads for

political and military support

Presenting a wide spectrum of settings and

characters, this epic novel addresses issues like war

and peace, tyranny and freedom, and the clash and

reconciliation of cultures and faiths; but it is also a

very bold and uninhibited celebration of life and the

joys and challenges of the physical world and human

relationships.

Riad Nourallah is Director of Research

at the London Academy of Diplomacy,

University of East Anglia. He has an

MA in English Literature from the

American University of Beirut and a

PhD from the University of

Cambridge. He has taught at the

American University of Beirut and the

universities of Cambridge, Salford, the

United Arab Emirates, Durham, and

Westminster. His book, The Death of

Almustafa, is also published by

Quartet Books.

From the author

of The Death of

Almustafa ( ISBN

9780704372115 ),

where the hero of

Gibran’s The

Prophet lives

again...