Arabian Nights and Days

by Naguib Mahfouz

Genres: Historical Fantasy; Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

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.

Release date: June 15, 2016

Publisher: Anchor

Print pages: 240