One Thousand and One Nights
By Hanan al-Shaykh
Foreword by Mary Gaitskill
By Hanan al-Shaykh
Foreword by Mary Gaitskill
Foreword by Mary Gaitskill
Translated by Hanan al-Shaykh
Foreword by Mary Gaitskill
Translated by Hanan al-Shaykh
Category: Fairy Tales | Literary Fiction
Category: Fairy Tales | Literary Fiction
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$20.00
Jun 03, 2014 | ISBN 9780307948991
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Jun 11, 2013 | ISBN 9780307958877
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Praise
“Magical. . . . Bursting with jinnis and mischief.”
—Donna Tartt, The Times (London)
“[al-Shaykh] brings the modern fiction writer’s gift for psychological complexity to the rich-but-streamlined quality of the originals. . . . Read through knowing you’re getting the very best of The Arabian Nights.”
—The Atlantic
“Spellbinding.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“al-Shaykh performs a great service in retelling [the Arabian Nights]. . . . [She] has shifted the camera angles, as it were, and trained the spotlight on the characters. . . . We get more of the essence of these stories, their anarchic humor and cheerful sadism.”
—NPR
“A treat and a trap for story lovers. Like a contemporary Shahrazad, al-Shaykh has rendered 19 little masterpieces into a wondrously warm, ribald and hilarious concoction.”
—Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian (London)
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