Salim the coachman tells enchanting tales, but suddenly he is struck dumb. Just as Scheherazade told tales to save her life, Salim's friends must spin yarns to save his speech. Set in Damascus in 1959, the novel alternates the real lives of our storytellers with stories from the distant past. These are neither fables nor fairy tales with everlasting, happy endings, and they often require readers to suspend their disbelief. Each chapter is preceded by a one-line hint of what is to come, such as 'How one person's true story was not believed, whereas his most blatant lie was.'
- ISBN10 1322404216
- ISBN13 9781322404219
- Publish Date 1 January 2014 (first published 1 October 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Interlink Publishing Group
- Format eBook
- Language English