Voices of the Desert
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Nelida Pinon
- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9780307266675
- 04 augustus 2009
- 254 pagina's
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From one of Brazils most beloved writers, a magical tale of lust, power, betrayal, and forgiveness set in the royal court of thirteenth-century Baghdad: a sumptuous retelling of the legend of Scheherazade that illuminates her character as never before. In exquisite prose, Nélida Piñon transports us from the Caliphs private sanctum to the crowded streets of the forbidden marketplace, to the high seas of imagination, and to Scheherazades innermost life, as she weaves her tales night after night.
As the novel opens, the Caliph, betrayed by the Sultana, vows to take his revenge on the women of his kingdom by marrying a different virgin each night and executing her at dawn. Born into privilege, a daughter of the Vizier, Scheherazade decides to risk her life by marrying the Caliph, in an effort to save the women of Baghdad.
Every evening, in an amorous battle devoid of love, Scheherazade succumbs to the Caliphs advances, and every night, with the help of her devoted sister Dinazarda and her loyal slave Jasmine, she entices the Caliph with her storytelling, unfurling accounts from the desert, the tundra, the bazaar, the golden-domed mosques. Scheherazade gives herself entirely to her characters, speaking as both man and woman, capturing the call of the muezzin, the speech of the caravans, the voices of the scattered tribes from the Red Sea to Damascus. The Caliph, unable to sate his curiosity, prolongs her life each day, desperate to hear how her stories will end. As Scheherazade brings him the tales of his people, he begins to question his cruel mandate and his own hardened heart, until, finally, Scheherazade discovers how to live out her story in a way that not even she could have imagined.
Here, for the first time, is the story of One Thousand and One Nights told from Scheherazades perspective, giving us the full breadth and depth of her longings and desires, her jealousies and resentments. Voices of the Desert is the ancient story reinventedas a womans story, an erotic allegory, a haunting meditation on the power of storytelling.
As the novel opens, the Caliph, betrayed by the Sultana, vows to take his revenge on the women of his kingdom by marrying a different virgin each night and executing her at dawn. Born into privilege, a daughter of the Vizier, Scheherazade decides to risk her life by marrying the Caliph, in an effort to save the women of Baghdad.
Every evening, in an amorous battle devoid of love, Scheherazade succumbs to the Caliphs advances, and every night, with the help of her devoted sister Dinazarda and her loyal slave Jasmine, she entices the Caliph with her storytelling, unfurling accounts from the desert, the tundra, the bazaar, the golden-domed mosques. Scheherazade gives herself entirely to her characters, speaking as both man and woman, capturing the call of the muezzin, the speech of the caravans, the voices of the scattered tribes from the Red Sea to Damascus. The Caliph, unable to sate his curiosity, prolongs her life each day, desperate to hear how her stories will end. As Scheherazade brings him the tales of his people, he begins to question his cruel mandate and his own hardened heart, until, finally, Scheherazade discovers how to live out her story in a way that not even she could have imagined.
Here, for the first time, is the story of One Thousand and One Nights told from Scheherazades perspective, giving us the full breadth and depth of her longings and desires, her jealousies and resentments. Voices of the Desert is the ancient story reinventedas a womans story, an erotic allegory, a haunting meditation on the power of storytelling.
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- 04 augustus 2009
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- 254
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- Nelida Pinon
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- Clifford E. Landers
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- 145 mm
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- 217 mm
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zuiver, zo goed als ongelezen exemplaar uit 2009, eerste druk, 254 pag., lichte gebruikssporen op omslagranden en snede, licht verkleurd op pagina, in goede staat / clean, hardly used copy, fine / Nélida Piñon ; translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers.
zuiver, zo goed als ongelezen exemplaar uit 2009, eerste druk, 254 pag., lichte gebruikssporen op omslagranden en snede, licht verkleurd op pagina, in goede staat / clean, hardly used copy, fine / Nélida Piñon ; translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers.
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