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Title: The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin ISBN: 1-58567-217-3 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A haunting, dreamlike novel
Comment: Robert Irwin borrows the stories-within-stories scheme, well known among Arab storytellers (think about the "arabian night" for instance....). At times this tecnique is taken to such an extent that you'll easily lose track of what's happening... but then who ever knows what's really happening in this oneiric wandering through the streets of Cairo? I tend to love everything that reeks of mystery and/or eccentricity and this novel definitely met my expectations. It's full of absurd, disturbing characters and intriguing machinations, all intertwined with tales/legends that stem from arab folklore. I couldn't put it down until it ended and... I definitely loved the ending ;-)
Rating: 2
Summary: Arabian Nightmare
Comment: I was drawn to this book by its literary style, but ended up put off by its distanced diction and its lack of character development. Though exotic sensuality is promised, little is really there on the page, and there's almost no action. Nor could I care about the characters, because they were little more than ciphers. I gave up, bored, about halfway through.
Rating: 5
Summary: Incantatory, alluring
Comment: This book, in such a relatively compact space, unfolds and unfolds itself, into stories within stories within stories. The cast of characters is continually shuffled around in a landscape that is equal parts real and unreal. (Cairo itself IS a major character in the story.) The results are very entertaining, albeit very dark. The Father of Cats, in particular, is a particularly chilling villian. I read this book for a week, and each night I would read it in bed, before I fell asleep. Although I never had any nightmares from reading the book--the experience of my own drowsiness when reading the book reminded me of the central issues in the book. It teeters between the waking world and the dream world, and the book succeeds brilliantly when the two are indistinguishable.
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Title: The Arabian Nights : A Companion by Robert Irwin ISBN: 1860649831 Publisher: TAURIS PARKE Pub. Date: 17 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi ISBN: 0679413383 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 30 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Arabian Nights and Days : A Novel by Naguib Mahfouz ISBN: 0385469012 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Knight (The Wizard Knight, Book 1) by Gene Wolfe ISBN: 0765309890 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 0380977427 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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