Voices of the Desert
Vozes do Deserto
Nélida Piñon (born 1937)
Translated by Clifford E. Landers
English editions
In EnglishVoices of the Desert
Alfred A. Knopf · United States · August 2009 · Hardcover · 254 pages
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Sure that every woman betrays, the Caliph has each night's bride executed in the morning. Scheherazade, the Vizier's brilliant daughter, means to end the slaughter by becoming his wife; her father, distraught, even tries to kill himself rather than see her go. She leaves anyway, taking her sister Dinazarda as an accomplice, and once wed she wins the king's leave to hear a story, then another, each breaking off at dawn. Retold from her own point of view, the old frame tale becomes a portrait of a woman defying absolute male power with her imagination.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 351 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iraq
- First published
- 2004 by Record
- Author's age
- 67 when first published
- ISBN
9788501069221 (original)
9780307266675 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)