this French book translated from the Arabic that I’d been struggling through. I liked it a lot, when I could make head or tail of it. It was about a woman who’s married unwilling to a sultan who murders each of his brides after consummating to stave off getting an heir, but she keeps him at bay every night by outwitting him, and telling him stories he can’t bear not to know the end of, so he keeps letting her live another day.
