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Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of  \nthe author’s imagination or are used ɹctitiously.  \nAny resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely  \ncoincidental.  \nCopyright © 2011 by Hanan al-Shaykh  \nIllustrations copyright © 2011 by Holly Macdonald  \nIntroduction copyright © 2013 by Mary Gaitskill  \nAll rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published, in slightly diʃerent form, in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, in 2011.  \nPantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nShaykh, Hanan.  \nOne thousand and one nights : a sparkling retelling of the beloved classic / Hanan alShaykh; with an introduction by Mary Gaitskill.  \npages cm  \neISBN: 978-0-307-95887-7  \nI. Arabian nights. II. Title.  \nPR6119.H398054 2013 823′.92—dc23 2012039272  \n[www.pantheonbooks.com](www.pantheonbooks.com)  \nJacket design by Gray318  \nv3.1  \nFor Shahrazad and her daughters  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nForeword by Mary Gaitskill  \nPreface  \nShahrayar and Shahrazad  \nThe Fisherman and the Jinni  \nThe Porter and the Three Ladies  \nThe First Dervish  \nThe Second Dervish  \nThe Third Dervish  \nThe First Merchant  \nThe Hunchback  \nThe Mistress of the House’s Tale  \nThe Doorkeeper’s Tale  \nThe Shopper’s Tale  \nThe Reaction of the Caliph  \nDalila the Wily  \nThe Demon’s Wife  \nThe Woman and Her Five Lovers  \nBudur and Qamar al-Zaman  \nZumurrud and Nur al-Din  \nThe Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor  \nThe Resolution of the Porter and the Three Ladies  \nAcknowledgements About the Author  \nOther Books by This Author  \nForeword  \nBY MARY GAITSKILL  \nOne Thousand and One Nights is about worlds underground, where jewels are embedded in darkness and a beautiful woman may love adevil; it’s about powerful slaves and foolish demons, secret spirits hidden in jars; it’s about truth living in the treacherous heart like an abiding and holy law waiting to be revealed in the words of a story told by a porter, a tailor, a concubine or lady—all through the lips of the lady Shahrazad to an enraged, cuckolded king on a revenge mission against woman-kind. If she stops telling stories, he will kill her like every other woman he sleeps with.  \nShahrazad isn’t a character in the usual sense, as her voice disappears in the stories that seem to exist without a narrator; she appears only at the very beginning and very end of One Thousand and One Nights. Yet she is an icon of feminine force, both submissive and powerful, invisible and generative. Traditionally One Thousand and One Nights ends when Shahrazad presents the king with three children and, because she has proven herself, he decides to marry her rather than kill her. 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