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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. She was not safe. No woman was ever safe, anywhere in this world. from Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed This richly imagined novel inspired by One Thousand and One Nights offers a vibrant Shaherazade, a flawed woman discovering the limitations of love and the power of words. She controls her husband’s rage and advises him in military and political decisions; Shahyar tells her, “You should have been born Malik.” As an idealistic thirteen-year-old at the Malik Shahyar’s wedding, she imagined the handsome couple madly in love. Witnessing his wife’s infidelity, she writes a letter of warning to the Malik, who discovering his wife in the act has her murdered. In his anger, he marries and murders two more wives before Shaherazade offers herself, sure her pure love and gift of storytelling will win the Malik’s heart. The tale she spins for the Malik is of a young woman disguised as a man whose adventures offers Shahyar respite from his worldly cares. Shaherazade follows Shahyar as he travels to join Saladin fighting the Frankish Crusades. Unable to break through to Shahyar’s heart and ignite his love, Shaherazade can’t stop thinking about the Emir who has proclaimed his love for her. I was engrossed by Shaherazade’s story and her exotic world. But, I became too eager to follow the frame of her story to really truly appreciate the tale embedded within. With the book over 400 pages long, I wanted to learn what happens to her and began to speed read through her tale. Viewing the Crusades through the eyes of those defending their homeland may be eye-opening to some readers. I was enchanted by Shaherazade’s exotic world: the descriptions of the spiced food that made my mouth water, the gorgeous fabrics and colorful carpets I could see in my mind’s eye, the cool gardens and the scorching desert sun. But we are also taken into the horrors of war, with the Franks and with vying tribes, with all its death and destruction. Inspired by one of the world’s most influential collection of folk stories, Every Rising Sun is sure to enchant. Thanks to the publisher for a free book. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik begins to marry and behead a new bride each night. Furious at the murders, his province seethes on rebellion's edge. To suppress her guilt, quell threats of a revolt, and perhaps marry the man she has loved since childhood, Shaherazade persuades her beloved father, the Malik's vizier, to offer her as the next wife. On their wedding night, Shaherazade begins a yarn, but as the sun ascends she cuts the story short, ensuring that she will live to tell another tale, a practice she repeats night after night. But the Malik's rage runs too deep for Shaherazade to exorcise alone. And so she and her father persuade the Malik to leave Persia to join Saladin's fight against the Crusaders in Palestine. With plots spun against the Seljuks from all corners, Shaherazade must maneuver through intrigue in the age's greatest courts to safeguard her people. All the while, she must keep the Malik enticed with her otherworldly tales-because the slightest misstep could cost Shaherazade her head. This suspenseful first-person retelling is vividly rendered through the voice of a fully imagined Shaherazade, a book lover whose late mother bestowed the gift of story that becomes her power. Created over fourteen years of writing and research, Jamila Ahmed's gorgeously written debut is a celebration of storytelling and a love letter to the medieval Islamic world that brings to life one of the most enduring and intriguing woman characters of all time"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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