El Libro De Las Mil Noches Y Una Noche; T. 3

The most dangerous thing about these stories is how they ensnare you. In the Sultan of Persia's palace, a young woman named Scheherazade has devised the only escape from death: she does not stop talking. Night after night, she spins tales so intoxicating that the Sultan delays her execution to hear how they end. By morning, she has planted the seed of another story. This is Volume Three of the Arabian Nights, containing some of the collection's most notorious tales. Here you'll find El-Kuz, a butcher tricked by a smooth-talking con artist, and El-Aschar, whose rash decisions lead to catastrophic consequences. These stories of love and betrayal, of vengeance and redemption, of treacherous women and clever merchants, have been dazzling readers for centuries. They operate on multiple levels: entertainment for a murderous Sultan, a desperate woman's survival strategy, and a profound meditation on the power of narrative itself. What makes these tales endure is their understanding that stories are how we make sense of a chaotic world, how we delay the dawn, how we perhaps change the endings we are fated to suffer.