One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling

Passed down over centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights are related by the beautiful, young Shahrazad as she attempts to delay her execution. Retold in modern English by the acclaimed Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh, here are stories of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. Bringing together nineteen classic tales, in these pages al-Shaykh weaves an utterly intoxicating collection, rich with humor, violence, and romance.

Author: Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 06/03/2014
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780307948991
ISBN10: 0307948994
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author

Hanan al-Shaykh, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops; the novels The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, and Only in London; and a memoir about her mother, The Locust and the Bird. She was raised in Beirut, educated in Cairo, and lives in London.