Mir Amman

Think Thousand Nights and One Night. Five stories that are stories within stories within stories. Although Mir Amman is listed as the author, he's not: he's the 19th century translator widely acknowledged as breathing life back into the 13th-century text. All the elements that you would expect from djinn to impossible romances to lavish feasts and even more lavish settings. Well-done but a little goes a long way. Because the stories contain so many parts and so many characters, by the time I was onto the third story, I lost track of what was who and what was what. But it doesn’t matter….… (mehr)