When Dreams Travel

Author: Githa Hariharan
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2008-01-01
Language: English
Pages: 276
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9780143104285

Description

With its sharp and lively blend of past and present, its skilful reworking of the historical tradition, and its evocative language, WHEN DREAMS TRAVEL has all the significance of modern myth.

The curtain opens on four figures, two men and two women. There is the sultan, who wants a virgin every night; there is his brother, who makes an enemy of darkness and tries to banish it; and there are their ambitious brides, the sisters Shahrzad and Sunyazad, aspiring to be heroines - or martyrs. Travelling in and out of these lives to spell binding effect is a range of stories, dark, poetic and witty in turn, spanning medieval to contemporary times.

A magical tour de force by a writer at the height of her powers.

'An outstanding new writer' - J M Coetzee, BOOKER PRIZE WINNER