Presentation by Orients Publishing: "For more than ten centuries Scheherazade has fired our imagination, but her own words had hardly ever been heard. Taha Hussein makes her speak as she has become Queen; she relieves her husband by continuing to distil tales of wisdom and duty. It is the first time that this story is translated into French. André Miquel offers us a magnificent farewell to a text about the woman saviour. Dia Azzawi, great Iraqi painter, completes the portrait of this absolute heroine with fifteen drawings, details and the cover of this book.
The translation of Taha Hussein's novel was done by Philippe Vigneux.
Photo: cover of the book.