Hanan al-Shaykh's book The Lady of The House, Sheherazade is a retelling of the Tales of a Thousand Night and a Night. AL-Shaykh uses the same setup to retell some of her favorite stories from the original work. While the premise is interesting, unfortunately, the book goes nowhere and feels kind of redundant. Even the language is redundant. I just, unfortunately, did not like this book. There is no original twist here. You're better of reading the original work.