When Dreams Travel - Softcover

Githa Hariharan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143104284 ISBN 13: 9780143104285

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

A magical tour de force by a writer at the height of her powers, When Dreams Travel weaves round Scheherazade or Shahrzad of the thousand and one nights a vibrant, inventive story about that old game that s never played out: the quest for love and power. 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 Dunyazad, aspiring to be heroines or martyrs. Travelling in and out of these lives to spellbinding effect is a range of stories, dark, poetic and witty by turns, spanning medieval to contemporary times. With its sharp and lively blend of past and present, its skilful reworking of the historical tradition, and its controlled use of evocative language, Githa Hariharan s multi-voiced narrative assumes the significance of modern myth.

About this title

About the Author:

Githa Hariharan was born in Coimbatore and grew up in Bombay and Manila. She now lives in New Delhi. Hariharan's first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Her work since then includes the short story collection The Art of Dying, and the novels The Ghosts of Vasu Master, When Dreams Travel and In Times of Siege.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0143104284
• ISBN 13: 9780143104285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288