The Merchant and the Jinni : A Tale from the 1001 Nights

<p>A merchant tosses aside a date pit beneath a tree and unknowingly kills a jinni's invisible son. Sentenced to die on the spot, he asks for one year to set his affairs in order and returns, exactly as promised, to face his death.</p>

<p>What he doesn't expect is that three strangers, each leading an animal that used to be a person, will choose to stay and tell the jinni their own extraordinary stories — and that a stranger's willingness to sit with a condemned man might be the only thing standing between him and the sentence he agreed to.</p>

<p>A tale from The Thousand and One Nights, retold plainly — for readers seven to ninety, about an accident, a promise kept, and the debts strangers choose to pay for each other.</p>