Voices of the desert
By: by Nélida Piñon ; translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers.
Contributors: Landers, Clifford E.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780307266675
Subjects: Scheherazade (Legendary character) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Vozes do deserto.
Description: Every evening, in an amorous battle devoid of love, Scheherazade succumbs to the Caliph's 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.
Notes: Originally published: Vozes do deserto. Rio de Janeiro : Record, 2004.