Arabian Nights and Days
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Book Overview
The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights , made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0385469012
ISBN13:9780385469012
Release Date:September 1995
Publisher:Anchor Books
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.46 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
A top 5 favorite book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I love this book, I love this book, I love this book! Having read it twice from library copies, I finally bought a copy for my own and am reading it again. I love this book! Though it should be noted that the city ruled by Shahriyar is Samarra, as the Jinns were sitting on the dome of the mosque of the Tenth Imam. This book is a jewel of literature. It is a work of art.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for a Reason
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Unique, fresh, and inspiring. At times amusing, at times disturbing, but always thought-provoking, never allowing good and evil to really be defined. The reader never knows what to expect. Go read it! It's quality literature that should not be missed.
Descubrimiento de un gran mundo
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Al comenzar a leer este libro, me di cuenta que estaba entrando a un grandioso mundo, el mundo árabe, con sus grandes palacios, exóticos lugares e increíble mitología. Todas las aventuras narradas en Las mil y una noches nos transportan a lugares totalmente nuevos para nosotros (que somos ajenos a esta cultura ancestral), llevándonos desde las aventuras de Simbad hasta viajes increíbles como el de los tres hermanos en su búsqueda fantástica y llena de peligros. Recomiendo enormemente este libro, ya que nos muestra una mitología ajena a nuestro ser y que nos cautivará desde el inicio.
Utterly delightful tales of moral choice
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
These utterly delightful tales begin where "A Thousand and One Nights" left off. Sometimes, when genies play, humans of high and low station are pressed into excruciating choice. Good and evil ripples through society. It's awesome how Mahfouz threads the holy into civic life.
Magical, inventive and never what it seems! Experience it!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
You know the stories, but you don't. You think you're on the path, but you are not on THE PATH. It's magical, but it feels real. And then you just give in to it, and you float away. This is why I read. Arabian Nights and Days will remain on my shelf for my children's children and then some, for it crosses generational, cultural and religious lines with the same ease and comfort of our best loved fables
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