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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Translations Translations into English |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Shaykh, Ḥanān. One thousand and one nights. New York : Pantheon Books, [2013] (DLC) 2012039272 (OCoLC)753624612 |
Material Type: | Document, Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ḥanān Shaykh |
ISBN: | 9780307958877 0307958876 |
OCLC Number: | 849739175 |
Notes: | "Originally published ... by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, in 2011"--Title page verso. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 288 pages) |
Contents: | Foreword -- Shahrayar and Shahrazad -- The fisherman and the jinni -- The porter and the three ladies -- The first dervish -- The second dervish -- The third dervish -- The first merchant -- The hunchback -- The mistress of the house's tale -- The doorkeeper's tale -- The shopper's tale -- The reaction of the caliph -- Dalila the wily -- The demon's wife -- The woman and her five lovers -- Budur and Qamar al-Zaman -- Zumurrud and Nur al-Din -- The fourth voyage of Sindbad the sailor -- The resolution of the porter and the three ladies. |
Other Titles: | Arabian nights. |
Responsibility: | a retelling by Hanan al-Shaykh ; foreword by Mary Gaitskill. |
Abstract:
An evocative reimagining of nineteen tales from the classic story about young queen Shahrazad's efforts to save her life from a brutal husband focuses on female characters at the heart of each tale in a woven sequence that incorporates humor and sensuality.
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