Twenty years have passed since Scheherazade seduced the tyrannical Shaiyar, when she spun her stories for 1001 nights. Now Scheherazade and Shariyar are in Baghdad; as is a monk, travelling from Sicily, clutching a scrap of an ancient tale about a storyteller. From the winner of the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary Award.
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Twenty years have passed since Scheherazade seduced the tyrannical Shaiyar, when she spun her stories for 1001 nights. Now Scheherazade and Shariyar are in Baghdad; as is a monk, travelling from Sicily, clutching a scrap of an ancient tale about a storyteller. From the winner of the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary Award.
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