Every Rising Sun
A spellbinding reimagining of The Thousand and One Nights
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'Lyrically imaginative . . . enthralling' GUARDIAN
Before she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn't have.
She told the king.
She thought she was doing what was right.
She couldn't have imagined what was to come.
The Seljuk Empire is on fire and the king is on a rampage after learning of his wife's infidelity. Unsated by her execution, he has gone on to wed and behead a new wife night after night. Fear spreads through the city and Shaherazade must do something, anything, to halt the horror she has set in motion. When the king starts searching for his next bride, Shaherazade steps forward.
As the sun sets on her wedding night, she begins to weave a tale that will go down in history.
'A sumptuous, moreish novel infused with the joys of storytelling' LEILA ABOULELA, author of Minaret
'I was entranced by this marvel of a book, wound about by the weave of its tales, unable to put it down' CLAIRE GILBERT, author of I, Julian
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ahmed debuts with a vibrant spin on the Arabian classic One Thousand and One Nights, foregrounding the political stratagems of Shaherazade, wife of the fumbling and murderous leader Seljuk Malik Shahryar. Shahryar, who killed his wife Fataneh after discovering her infidelity, beheads a new bride each day out of continued rage. Shaherazade hopes that by marrying Shahryar, she can put a stop to the "mad Malik, with a pile of dead girls at his feet." As in the original, Shaherazade avoids the fate of the Malik's previous brides by weaving an extraordinary series of serpentine tales, always careful to end on a cliffhanger. Djinns and magicians, psychic parrots, and other worlds unfold in her narration. In between the stories, a new romance buds—and it's as much a threat to Shaherazade's life as the possibility that Shahryar will grow bored with her stories. Ahmed is a shrewd observer of how Shaherazade navigates the strict gender roles and political uncertainty of her time. When the Seljuks go to war, supporting Sultan Saladin during the Crusades, Western readers familiar with the story of Richard the Lionheart will gain a new perspective on the battles over Jerusalem. Ahmed brings new life to Shaherazade's thrilling tales.