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.
“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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