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‘Fascinating…intriguing…Glass is skilled at bringing people alive…an important book.’ Sunday Times
‘Charles Glass reads like Taki with an explosives belt. Yet this attention to social form becomes a strength when it shows how a generation of insult by both British and Israeli occupiers has brought a traditional Arab society to the end of its tether…Even the ruling passions of Glass’s life and writing, which are good food and pretty women, contribute balance to the book.’ Spectator
‘He writes stylishly…the most absorbing passages in the book trace Glass's progress through Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza…Glass enlivens his text with some intriguing asides.’ Daily Mail
‘Anyone who is interested in the continuing agony of the Middle East should read this book.’ Literary Review
‘An eloquent and sensitive journey…with trademark flowing style and laconic humour.’ Oldie
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'Fascinating!intriguing!Glass is skilled at bringing people alive!an important book.' Sunday Times 'Charles Glass reads like Taki with an explosives belt. Yet this attention to social form becomes a strength when it shows how a generation of insult by both British and Israeli occupiers has brought a traditional Arab society to the end of its tether!Even the ruling passions of Glass's life and writing, which are good food and pretty women, contribute balance to the book.' Spectator 'He writes stylishly!the most absorbing passages in the book trace Glass's progress through Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza!Glass enlivens his text with some intriguing asides.' Daily Mail 'Anyone who is interested in the continuing agony of the Middle East should read this book.' Literary Review 'An eloquent and sensitive journey!with trademark flowing style and laconic humour.' Oldie
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
An earlier review is critical of Mr Glass' sexual life. How absurd. Anybody who has read Tribes With Flags and then its sequel The Tribes Triumphant can only marvel at the author's approach to his subject following a traumatic kidnapping by Hezbollah in Beirut. Charles Glass is also one of the few authors to truly 'feel' his subject matter both through familial relations and by his on the ground reportage. If all we wanted to read on the complex Middle East subject were dry tombs we would simply sit in a vacuous campus classroom. Instead, by baring his own human frailty and failings, Mr Glass presents us with a lyrically poetic memoir that deserves its place among the best reads on such a misunderstood region. And if he had fun along the way, then good on him. He deserves it. An outstanding book in its own right, The Tribes Triumphant occupies rarified literary territory: a sequel better than the original, which, in this case, is truly amazing.
1 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I know, this is a weird title to a journey book but there's no way of reading this book full of clichés and misinformation and not pay attention to the narcissistic way the author presents his trip. As real Don Juan, it sounds like Mr. Gass seduces and b*ngs all the middle eastern girls he wants instead of focusing on the social political field.
As the dedicatory of the book makes clear this is a completely biased book, as anything that you can expect of something dedicated to Edward Said and Noam Chomsky. Instead of interviewing relevant parts of the political spectrum of the places he visited, Charles Glass concentrates in interviewing hardcore leftists whose function is to base the same ideas.
If you like the subject, try Eastward to Tartary from Robert Kaplan.
As the dedicatory of the book makes clear this is a completely biased book, as anything that you can expect of something dedicated to Edward Said and Noam Chomsky. Instead of interviewing relevant parts of the political spectrum of the places he visited, Charles Glass concentrates in interviewing hardcore leftists whose function is to base the same ideas.
If you like the subject, try Eastward to Tartary from Robert Kaplan.
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