{"title":"New Academia Publishing, LLC","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780979448812","title":"Love and Samsara","description":"Love and Samsara is an epic diorama of the world in the early 16th century, stretching from Europe to Asia, taking in Brazil, Africa, the Middle East, India, and then the lands below the wind, the monsoon countries of South East Asia. The story marks a time when the modern world becomes linked with power-gunpowder for cannon, printing for the spread of knowledge, and astronomy for a new understanding of the heavens. Here is a samsara crowded with adventure, history, tragic love, philosophical speculation, religious confrontation, suspense and mystery, that reaches its climax in 1510 with the Portuguese conquest of Goa.\n\nPraise\n\n\"Eusebio L. Rodrigues uses subtle metaphors of haunting memory to dramatize the Portuguese penetration of the Arab trading world of the sixteenth century, transforming it completely, an event more traumatic than the discovery of America.\"\n-Jaysinh  Birjepatil, author  of  Chinnery's  Hotel.\n\n\"The most epic novel written about Goa.\" \n-José Pereira, author of Suárez: Between Scholasticism and Modernity.\n\n\"This is fiction at its best, a masterful multi-layered epic novel, compelling and lyrical at the same time that will challenge and delight any devotee of the genre and of the English language.\"  -Roberto Severino, Professor Emeritus of Italian, Georgetown University.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295607501173,"sku":"9780979448812","price":42.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780979448812_a6042fb1-a31e-4b03-af64-5f573f32bf77.jpg?v=1786016007"},{"product_id":"9780984406296","title":"Red Star, Crescent Moon","description":"This is a bold tale of clashing cultures. This love story between a Muslim and a Jew, creates a world of characters caught in webs of historical misunderstandings which leads to violence.\nThis book mixes contemporary and the historical worlds in a bold tale of clashing cultures. The love story between a Muslim and a Jew, documentary film director Aisha and historian Benjamin, is set in modern Spain against the vibrant and colorful background of a film festival, the location shoot of a Hollywood epic, the seductive intentions of a movie megastar, and the violent actions of terrorists who wish to reclaim that country for Islam. Telling its story in multiple voices, Red Star, Crescent Moon confronts major cultural and political dilemmas of our time, creating a world of characters caught in webs of historical misunderstandings which leads to violence.  \n\n\"For those of us who have followed Robert Rosenstone's writing career, Red Star, Crescent Moon hits a new peak: a novel with deep historical roots that is also filled with action, romance, and intricate plotting.\"\nLouis Breger, author, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Light\n\n\"Red Star, Crescent Moon: is not just about the kaleidoscope of history and politics and pop culture: it's about what being human means in the face of terror.\" \nLeslie Brody, author Red Star Sister\n\n\"Like all great love stories, Red Star, Crescent Moon takes place at the dangerous intersection of passion and all that threatens to destroy it.\"\nJames Goodman, author Stories of Scottsboro","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295611433333,"sku":"9780984406296","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780984406296_2dd72220-8be5-49b4-9a8a-96b6ca860cde.jpg?v=1786016093"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/publisher-new-academia-publishing-llc.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}