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When You Tell Stories, the Desert Blossoms
- date of publication: 21.08.2023
- 480 Pages
- Hanser Verlag
- hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-446-27746-5
- Deutschland: 26,00 €
- Österreich: 26,80 €
- ePUB-Format
- E-Book ISBN 978-3-446-27854-7
- E-Book Deutschland: 19,99 €
Rafik Schami combines the most beautiful Arabic tales into an exciting novel
An ode to the tradition of storytelling
A celebration of storytelling that is rich, enthralling and moving. Rafik Schami has rescued gems of Arabic storytelling from oblivion and has combined them in this personal, poetic novel. In an Arab country in the 19th century, the wise and just King Salih reigns. When the queen is killed in an assassination attempt, their only daughter sinks into deep melancholy. Unbeknownst to her father, she has fallen in love with a poor fisherman. When Karam, the coffee-shop storyteller, learns of her illness, he resolves to heal the princess. Every evening, he gathers gifted storytellers in the palace to bring the young woman back to life with the most beautiful stories: of courage and cowardice, intelligence and superstition, friendship and enmity, love and the wisdom of the heart. Schami’s new novel is a homage to storytelling that will inspire not only readers of Tales from One Thousand and One Nights.
»When he tells stories, the desert blossoms – the new novel by master storyteller Rafik Schami.«
Denis Scheck
