Arabian Nights

Scheherazade keeps herself alive one night at a time, telling story after story to a king who has sworn to end her life at dawn. The collection gathers folk narratives that travelled for centuries across South Asia and the Middle East, carrying merchants, thieves, genies, sailors and rulers through markets, palaces and open sea. Tales sit nested inside other tales, so a single episode often opens onto two or three more before it closes, and the frame of the condemned queen holds the whole structure together. Points that stand out: • A frame narrative in which storytelling itself becomes a means of survival • Tales rooted in Arabic, Persian and Indian oral tradition • Short episodes that suit reading a few pages at a sitting • Recurring figures such as sailors, sorcerers and clever tricksters Suited to readers of world literature, students of folklore and anyone building a shelf of classics, available at Boipoka.