| Description |
534 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Queen Scheherazade is kidnapped from Baghdad and must tell a story to save her own life, having told stories for many years to save the lives of other women. "Ninth-century Baghdad, legendary crossroads of the East. It is nearly twenty years since Scheherazade spun her tales for a thousand and one nights, the tales that saved her life and immortalised the city that she had never seen - until now. But almost immediately she is kidnapped by a party of hashish-chewing assassins from under the Caliph of Baghdad's nose. An ancient prophecy leads the Caliph to despatch an unlikely crew of sailors on a rescue mission. As they venture deeper into the unforgiving desert, losing camels, supplies, and all sense of dicrection, Scheherazade must face her abductors alone. And once again begins to spin a tale to save her life... An adventure full of wit, danger and incident, murder and mystery, poetry and philosophy - and testament to the power of the imagination - Scheherazade sweeps from the historical realities of Arabian life into a world of magic carpets and miraculous beings, seamlessly weaving fact, fiction and fable into a novel rich with all the heady power of the Arabian Nights." -back cover |
| Subject |
Scheherazade, Queen, consort of Shahryar, King of Persia (Legendary character) -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Kidnapping -- Fiction.
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Storytelling -- Fiction.
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Women storytellers -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Baghdad (Iraq) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80006292 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
2002392266 |
| ISBN |
0732268788 |
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