One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling

✍ Scribed by Hanan al-Shaykh

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 192 KB
• Edition: 1st American ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307958876

✦ Synopsis

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.;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.