The Tale of the 1002nd Night
Subtitle: A Novel
Contributors: Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Publisher: Picador
Published: October 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312244941
Subjects: Historical fiction; Modern fiction; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Historical - General; Fiction / Literary; Literary
First sentence: In the spring of the year 18-, the Shah-in-Shah, the great, exalted, and holy monarch, the absolute ruler and overlord of all the lands of Persia, began to feel a sense of malaise of a kind he had never before experienced.