A Thousand Nights
$32.68
- Hardcover
496 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2026
Summary
“A folkloric tour de force.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
In the mold of Arabian Nights, this groundbreaking YA anthology—featuring seventeen Muslim women writers—links together fantastical stories that a group of refugees tell one another within a riveting frame story.
On her way across the desert, fleeing the soldiers who have destroyed all she knows, one refugee meets another. And another and another. As they travel together, on a journey in se…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781536241549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1536241547 |
| Author: | Nafiza Azad, Intisar Khanani |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 822g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 159mm x 236mm |
| Audience Age: | 12 |
Critics Review
A dazzling, powerful short story collection that weaves the voices of 17 Muslim women authors and editors… . With each one as lyrical and compelling as the next, this collection is a triumphant examination of imperialism and displacement, friendship and found family, and the power of story and imagination. A successful homage to the original A Thousand and One Nights, this exquisite short story collection is a folkloric tour de force.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Azad … and Khanani … curate and contribute to a captivating anthology of Muslim folklore that showcases stories from 15 female Muslim authors… . Narratives of survival and displacement move fluidly between revolutions against tyrants, encounters with bird catchers, and stories about royalty, generating a varied yet thematically cohesive mosaic.
—Publishers Weekly
The 15 tales, each by a different Muslim woman author, are drawn from cultures around the world, and their integration with the frame story renders them remarkably cohesive… . this work is a refreshing and effective variation on typical anthology formats. A timely collection, full of marvels and hard-won hope.
—Kirkus Reviews
Nafiza Azad
Nafiza Azad
Nafiza Azad is the author of The Candle and the Flame, a finalist for the William C. Morris Debut Award, The Wild Ones, and Road of the Lost. She is also the coeditor, with Melody Simpson, of the nonfiction anthology Writing in Color. Born in Fiji, she lives in Alberta, Canada.
Intisar Khanani
Intisar Khanani is the author of the Sunbolt Chronicles and the Dauntless Path series. Her latest release, Memories of Ash, was a Kirkus Reviews pick for Best Teen and YA Fantasy of 2024. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, two kids, and three cats.
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