num_pages: 272
description: It is 1959, Damascus. The most famous storyteller in Damascus, Salim, the coachman, has mysteriously lost his voice. For seven nights, his seven old friends gather to break the spell with their seven different, unique stories -- some personal, some modern, some borrowed from the past. Against the backdrop of shifting Middle Eastern politics, Schami's eight characters, lost to the Arabian nights, weave in and out of tales of wizards and princesses, of New York skyscrapers and America. With spellbinding power, Schami imparts a luscious vision of storytelling as food for thought and salve for the soul, as the glue which holds our lives together.
language: English
title: Damascus Nights
titlecomplete: Damascus Nights
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Contemporary, German Literature, Asia, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literature, Short Stories, Novels
ratings_count: 1590
publisher: Touchstone