Elizabeth's review
The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights" (Once Upon a Time)
by Cameron Dokey
Elizabeth's review
The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights" (Once Upon a Time) by Cameron Dokey
Elizabeth's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fairy-tales
recommended for: everyone who likes the amazing story of Shahrazad
It was the story I already knew -brave girl sacrificing herself to a wicked sultan and telling his stories to try to save herself and the entire kingdom- but it was so new and different, full of traitors and revenge and love and death.
Maju, Shahrazad's mother, the great storyteller, is blind. She reads stories with her fingers from lengths of cloth and tells them aloud to those who listen. She was taken captive a country that had been conquered, and given to the grand vizier of the Sultan for a wife. He loved her, but the people of his kingdom were always wary of her, and of her daughter.
Maju becomes ill, and before she dies, she speaks to Shahrazad alone. There was a prophecy, she tells her, that Maju would give birth to the greatest storyteller that would ever live. Shahrazad is her only child.
After Maju dies, Shahrazad begins to go blind...
Maju, Shahrazad's mother, the great storyteller, is blind. She reads stories with her fingers from lengths of cloth and tells them aloud to those who listen. She was taken captive a country that had been conquered, and given to the grand vizier of the Sultan for a wife. He loved her, but the people of his kingdom were always wary of her, and of her daughter.
Maju becomes ill, and before she dies, she speaks to Shahrazad alone. There was a prophecy, she tells her, that Maju would give birth to the greatest storyteller that would ever live. Shahrazad is her only child.
After Maju dies, Shahrazad begins to go blind...
