The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights Fiction_Gift_Guide tongue-in-cheek view

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and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power

strategies

both within his family and with his partner

author of The Ruin of Kings

The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights Fiction_Gift_Guide tongue-in-cheek view"[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers prose, rhymed prose, poetry and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully." Yasmine Al Sayyad, New Yorker A