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The Storyteller's Daughter
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How do all great stories begin? With "Once Upon A Time..."
Once upon a time, there lived a king whose heart was heavy. He had been betrayed by the woman he loved. Though the queen's schemes were discoverd before she could deprive her husband of his life, her dying curse killed something deep within him: his ability to love and trust.
And so he makes a terrible resolution: He will take a bride for one night only. In the morning she will face a horrible fate. Then he will choose another. Nothing can change his course, until one brave woman steps forwward. Shahrazad, the Storyteller's Daughter.
Steeped in the ancient art of her mother's people, Shahrazad embarks upon a perilous course. With words alone, she will seek to restore the king's heart. As she tells her tales a bond forms between them that neither can deny. But will it be strong enough to hold them together when unexpected danger erupts?
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Fabulous retelling of an obscure fairy tale!.......2007-01-14
This is the best one in the series (I've read about 8 so far) and it is well written and interesting to read. It is a terrific fairy tale about Scheherazade (the original Russian spelling) who is remarkably mature and not annoying at all. Granted, I am an adult who occasionally likes to read books that are clearly too young for me, so it is likely that teenage heroines would sometimes be irritating, but I think The Storyteller's Daughter appeals to young women and adult women alike. Nicely done, Cameron Dokey. Thank you.
Arabian Nights retold..........2006-06-21
Raised to be her mother and more, Shahrazad can only hope to fill her destiny as an even greater storyteller than Maju, her mother. As a child, she struggles to accept herself, and after the death of Maju, she struggles to find her heart. For ten years, the now blind Shahrazad has prepared herself for what awaits...
Despite the trials of his brother Shahzaman, Shahrayar finds his life all he ever wished it were, until he finds his wife has betrayed him and cast a curse that hardens his heart with her last few breaths. And so, he demands his wishes to be fulfilled in a proclamation that brings the shadow of fear upon everyone in the kingdom, their fate now unknown...
Thrown together by Shahrazad's plan to soften the King, the daughter of the vizier, Nur al-Din, chooses to risk her life to help Shahrayar regain his ability to love in the midst of realizing her own love. Through the tales she spins for the King, they fall in love and into the traps of brothers seeking revenge. What befalls the couple, you'll just have to read...
I enjoyed this book, and I'll admit, I never knew the story of 1001 Nights (Except for that one carnival ride 1001 Nachts, I'd never heard of it). But I do believe this story to be pretty basic, although I'm guessing the author tied in the plot to kill the King for some suspense. Overall, this is one of the best in the series.
Sweet retelling of 1001 Nights.......2006-05-21
I actually would have given this 4 and a half stars, but amazon doesn't do that, so. 4.5. Anyway, I've never read the original, but I like this series of retold fairy tales very much, and The Storyteller's Daughter is no exception. The language is simple yet enchanting, and the characters are actually quite well-done for such a short book. The only problem I had was that for such a short book, Sharazad's stories seem to be too long, so the book drags a bit in those places. Otherwise, quite enjoyable!
A story is alive, as you and I are........2006-02-16
Once there was a kingdom ruled by a wise and benevolent king who had two sons, Shahrayar and Shazaman. Upon his death his sons decide to rule in kind instead of conflict, splitting the vast kingdom between them; Shahrayar taking for himself the lands of India and Indochina while giving his younger brother the city of Samarkand and all of the trade routes. With the palace came the courts of his father, including the wise council of his father's beloved vizier Nur al-Din, a man blessed with two daughter's of two different wives at the time of the King's death. Both daughter's are different, Dinarzad is his second daughter, an impressionable, precocious daughter aged ten at the time of the king's passing, and then there is Shahrazad, daughter of Maju a blind drabardi (storyteller mastered in the arts of cloth reading). When Shahrazad was just a girl Maju died and with her the art of the drabardi, that is until Nur al-Din realized that the art of the drabardi was passed along to Shahrazad at the moment of her mother's death, that and the curse of blindness that goes along with it.
So passes along ten years time, and in that Nur al-Din's family is peaceful and content. Likewise, the same can not be said for the two kings. Shazaman married a woman whom he loved dearly, but when she betrays him his heart turns to stone and he flees to his brother's kingdom for solace. Shahrayar has also married a woman he loves, but Shazaman encourages him to be wary of romantic love, because it may conceal hidden plots. One night, to Shahrayar's dismay, the two brothers learn this to be true. Following the death of his queen and her lover Shahrayar goes into a melancholy state that cannot be lifted, though he knows that for the sake of the kingdom he must wed his heart rails at the thought. Finally, he comes up with a compromise and vows to take a bride every month of the new moon for only one night, the next morning will prove to be her last as she is sacrificed. The only way this can be reversed is if a maiden comes willingly to the king of her own free heart and sacrifices herself so that others following her might live in the quiet protection of the palace. The Kingdom is expectedly horrified at this prospect and thinks their once loved king mad in his desires. All refuse to believe he would spare a woman until one steps up to meet the challenge, the vizier's own daughter Shahrazad, who believes that she has concocted a scheme that might allow her enough time to change the King's mind.
Naturally, her father and her sister are despaired when she asks this boon of them, but seeing how her will is set to this task her father cannot help but comply, and in doing so feels he seals his beloved daughter's doom. Much to his unknowing the King, Shahrayar, has always been an admirer of Shahrazad and of her art and so when she requests on the night of their wedding that she might be allowed to tell her sister a final story he grants her this wish, only to be intrigued by her story to such a degree that he cannot bear to sacrifice her on the dawn as he said he would. Instead he proclaims that he will grant her respite until the completion of her story, however long it might take. In this, she is allotted the time it takes to melt his frozen heart and see if he is a man worthy of her affections.
The core story is intriguing, naturally, coming from the tales of Arabian Nights. I found that the short stories that Shahrazad wove were distracting from the overall plot, even though I realize they were meant to be morality plays and character assessments more than anything else. I almost would have preferred if the stories were non-existent and the plot between the King and the conspirators plotting to kill him (brothers of his former wife) was a tad more fleshed out, as this bit felt rushed and unimportant by the time we were at the climax of that story arc.. Although this plot obviously took over at the end as it was supposed to. Still, that whole plotline just felt so unnecessary, and that was perhaps due to the fact that it was only briefly mentioned in the book because so much of it was devoted to the tales that Shahrazad was telling. Now, I realize that is the plot of Arabian Nights, but for a retelling I would have preferred if certain elements were fleshed out a touch more. Also a bit underdone was the development of the romance between Shahrayar and Shahrazad... and I do realize that he fell in love with her through the storytelling and the time they spent in this fashion, however because of how the elements were construed in this particular retelling it felt as if suddenly he was overwhelmingly in love with her, and that felt a bit, well, sudden, to say the least.
I guess I didn't get into this one as much as I did the other "Once Upon a Time" series books that I have read so far (this makes my sixth), but it still makes for a worthy addition to the series. I certainly don't regret reading it, just the few things that would have made it a five star book instead of a four star book.
this is a good book.......2006-01-13
Once upon a time, there lived a king named Shahrayar that had lost his love and trust. He had been betrayed by the women he loved. His queen schemes were caught before she could deprive his life from him.
So he makes a resolution, he will take a bride for one night only. Then in the morning she will face a horrible fate. Then he will choose another. Nothing will change his mined till one brave woman steps forward. Shahrazad, the Storytellers Daughter.
This story has a lot of compassion with the characters. Like when the girl is talking to her farther about marring the king. There also is the part were they are in a story and a girl wish to be a fish then heirs about a plan to kill her father so she makes a desperate attempted to save him.
There are a lot of characters in this story like the sister of Shadrazad Dinarzad or the story teller and the father of Shahrazad, Vizier. Then there is the king's brother and father. There is the all of the servants and all the town folk.
There are a lot of stories in this book. There is the one where the girl saves her fathers life by giving her own. There is the one were she tells the story about the king to her sister.
This book is good because it has a lot of compassion, there are so many characters in this book, and there are a lot of stories in this book. I believe you should read this book if you like old compassion books.
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The vivid, often startling memoir of a young woman shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds. Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears presided over for nine hundred years within sight of the minarets and lush gardens of Kabul and the snow-topped mountains of the Hindu Kush. Part sophisticated, sensitive Western liberal, part fearless, passionate Afghan, falling in love with her ancestral myth–chasing Afghanistan–Shah becomes, at twenty-one, a correspondent at the front of the war between the Soviets and the Afghan resistance. Then, imprisoning herself in a burqa, she risks her life to film Beneath the Veil, her acclaimed record of the devastation of women’s lives by the Taliban. Discovering her extended family, discovering a world of intense family ritual, of community, of male primacy, of arranged marriages, and finding at last the now war-ravaged family seat, she discovers as well what she wants and what she rejects of her extraordinary heritage.
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Couldn't put it down!.......2006-11-19
An absolutely delicious story! Afghanistan's lore and legend come to life in the author's own accounts of her bold adventures as a woman on the fronts of danger in Afghanistan. It being true made it all the more fun. I really could not put this book down; it is a fascinating tale that includes intrigue, suspense, and a uniquely satire sense of humor sprinkled throughout. Saira Shah transports the reader to a foreign land, a foreign way of life, a foreign way of thought. Yet, the tales echo familiar as she gives a spectacular presentation of the clash between mystical historical lore, modern day realities, and the blend of these two realms on humanity's culture, mind, and heart.
A Millions Little Pieces, Jr........2006-07-25
I am currently in Kabul, and have read almost every English-language book on Afghanistan that is popularly available. I have also lived in Kabul and traveled to Feyzbad, Kandahar,Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad, Kunduz and along the Uzbek Border. I speak mediocre Dari. Among the books that I enjoyed were those by Saira Shah's grandmother (try "My Khyber Life") and her father, Idris Shah. The same cannot be said for Saira Shah's. Shah' work, however. Part of my complaint was that the book isn't about anything much - its just a list of what she claims were her experiences in and near Afghanistan. I would compare them to a series of interesting letters detailing what I did on my afghan vacation. What they don't provide is insight into what was happening in Afghanistan or Peshawar, why, or what is going on now, or much cultural or historical information.
My other, more serious complaint, is that I think most of the book is not true, and that Ms. Shah either made it up entirely, seriously exaggerated or "borrowed" the story from someone else's experience. The issue is not that the book was not entertaining, because it was, but that I strongly suspect that it is entertaining only because she changed (or created) the facts to make it so.
Too much of what she claims were her experiences in Afghanistan are general stories one hears here (such as the time she met a Mullah who spoke Arabic while claiming to be an Arab man. She says that he started faking speaking Arabic, and she pretended to understand him, so he declared them Arabs to keep his lie of Arabic proficiency and prestige that went with it. This story of two language frauds is heard in many incarnations. I even heard one in a German-language book I read 10 years ago in Austria. Also, some mountain mullahs do speak some Arabic. They may not be fluent, but they know a little bit and would spot someone who didn't, the same way you would if the only Spanish you knew was "what is your name?" and when you asked someone who claimed to be a Spaniard they didn't understand. She might have also been expected to talk to her companions and pray in Arabic - it would seem strange if she did neither, and if there is any Arabic people know here, its prayers).
Another example of an improbable event is when she tells of a Buzgashi game during which the players rode their horses into the tent holding "the Great and the Good" and collapsed the tent on them. I'm guessing all of the spectators weren't the "Great and the Good," but it makes a better story if they were. Also, although Buzgashi is compared to polo, but it is really a lot more violent. All of the horses are stallions, and taught to kick and bite each other. The only rule for the players is no eye gouging. The game set-up is sort of like a race, as the player holding the goat as to ride around certain points before he can make a goal, and the others ride alongside trying to stop him. I play horse polo and have watched Buzgashi, and although a horse might run away, the whole group of players could avoid running into a spectator's tent (I've also never seen a tent for spectators, but maybe they really had that in Pakistan). If they were out of control, horses by instinct would head for open space or for home, not into an unknown tent full of people. If by some fluke a horse or horses did run into the tent, it would not have been funny. People would have been hurt, and probably killed - the same goes for the horses. If the horses just took out the tent supports, they still would have tripped, fallen and seriously injured themselves and their riders.
Other stories just don't make sense - Dari is an older version of Farsi, it's true, but it''s not so ancient that people say "entomb thyself' instead of "take cover" as Ms Shah claims Afghans do. If Ms Shah met an Afghan who wanted her to take cover he would say "Hide!" "Get Down!" or "Cover!" He would only tell her to entomb herself if he wanted to her bury herself. It makes a quaint story about ancient languages and confusions cased by language, but it isn't true (I asked one of guards who work her at my office in Kabul, and who was previously a soldier for15 years and he agreed). By Ms. Shah's own admission her Dari wasn't so great, which makes me question if she would have understood an archaic command such as "entomb thyself," even if someone had spoken it. I also doubt that Ms.Shah spent so much time in men's clothes without anyone noticing - if she didn't have a beard, or stubble, or know how to pray with the men, they would eventually notice. From a distance I'm sure she blended in, and it would work short-term, but if she kept up for too long her secret would be out. I'm sure she did travel in men's gear, but I'm also sure it wasn't for as long as she implied, or as successfully. I used to "cross dress" in Saudi and it took abut 20 minutes before the strangers around me in the junk souk were certain I wasn't a man. There are may other such instances I doubt Ms. Shah truthfulness and stories that are too good to be true. (I was so angry when I was reading the book that I kept a list), but in the interest of a somewhat shorter review I'll stop at those examples. More generally, I find it unlikely that Ms. Shah's experience always fit so neatly into a "story,"or that her stock character friends (the rebellious Afghan girl who wants to be free, the prescient professor who sees the dangers ahead but is ignored by leaders etc.) always had the "inside scoop" and told it to her in short sound bites capturing the entire situation, or that she so frequently found herself in a situation so perfectly primed for maximum effect.
The only part of the book that is not like this is near the end, when Ms. Shah brings a television crew to film two girls (she included them in an earlier news piece after their mother was raped and killed in front of them, and the resulting interest in their fate from paying news agencies promoted a return trip to try and help them and tape said efforts for a TV channel), by providing schooling for them, only to find them afraid to leave home and their father reluctant to let them go. This was messy, morally compromising and a without a real resolution, which makes me think it is the most true section of the book. The rest is neat, pat, a little funny sometimes tragic, and, in my opinion, almost always "enhanced," if not completely fabricated.
In short read one of the many, many good books out there by the many, many truthful writer based in fact. They might not be quite so perfect and their writers not quite so in the middle of thing, but they are also more likely to be true, and you will therefore get more out of them.
Myth, identity, realities . . ........2006-07-03
Part memoir, part reportage, this beautifully written book is also an inquiry into the nature of myth, identity, and the limits of human endurance. Born in England and raised on the memories of her Afghan father's homeland, the author journeys as a young journalist to Afghanistan during the Soviet Occupation in the 1980s, traveling with the mujahidin rebels, who with massive infusions of weapons from the CIA eventually drive out the Russians and then quickly succumb again to an equally destructive civil war and the inevitable tyranny of the Taliban. A witness to these struggles and the widespread human misery they caused, Shah is present again in 2002 as the Americans retaliate in response to the 9/11 attacks.
Through it all, she ponders her deep identification with the people of this war-torn land, fired by the cultural myths that have sustained them through millenia of invasions, occupations, and civil strife, where fierce tribal allegiances and a fatalistic fearlessness make death, brutality, and suffering a common experience. Over a period of 15 years, her belief in the myths is tested, and she begins to fully comprehend not only the immensity of the human cost of the war but the extreme difficulty of making a difference for those of its casualties most in need of help.
Writing with a skilled reporter's powers of acute observation and an ability to convey images of people, places, and events in vivid and compelling prose, Shah interweaves stories, Afghan poems and sayings, and even humor, with accounts of her work as a journalist behind the lines. Readers unfamiliar with the last 50 years of Afghan history may be disoriented as Shah tells her own story, skipping as it does from one point in time to another. But read along with books like Christina Lamb's "The Sewing Circles of Herat" and Jason Eliot's "An Unexpected Light," she provides insights into her subject that are revealing, moving, and often riveting. Definitely recommended.
Absolutely amazing!.......2005-11-18
This book is one of the best books I have read. It was touching and made me realise what an amazing life Saira Shah has led. After I closed the book, I could not pick up annother book for a couple of days - I did not want to spoil the feeling it had left me with. This book will move you, make you think and touch you.
I loved it!
RAWA was main factor in fame of Saria Shah's documentry.......2005-05-09
Some footages of atrocities of taliban that were included in the documentry of Saira shah were filmed by members of RAWA which made the film a real success and resulted in its acceptance all over the world. I think Saira should give full credit to RAWA members for their courage and great work. Zarmeenas public execution, which was starting clip in the film, was secretely filmed by a number of RAWA members. Without that clip the film could not draw much attention.
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The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights" (Once Upon a Time)
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"ONCE UPON A TIME"IS TIMELESS
In a faraway kingdom, a king has been betrayed. Deeply hurt and bitterly angry, he vows never to be deceived again. Unfortunately, the king's plan to protect himself will endanger all of the realm's young women, unless one of them will volunteer to marry the king -- and surrender her life.
To everyone's relief and horror, one young woman steps forward. The daughter of a legendary storyteller, Shahrazad believes it is her destiny to accept this risk and sacrifice herself.
On the night of her wedding to the king, Shahrazad begins to weave a tale. Fascinated, the king lets her live night after night. Just when Shahrazad dares to believe that she has found a way to keep her life -- and an unexpected love -- a treacherous plot will disrupt her plan. Now she can only hope that love is strong enough to save her.
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Arabian Nights.......2007-07-18
What stories come to mind when you hear the phrase "fairy tale"? Cinderella? Beauty and the Beast? Probably not Arabian Nights. But though it's not exactly what you'd expect from a series called "Once Upon a Time", "The StoryTeller's Daughter" is one of the best.
The story is excellent and the romance well done. The themes of honesty, trust, and knowing yourself are well thought out. The characters are complex and interesting. The writing is also good, though it is a little overwrought in places. I especially enjoyed the way Shahrazad's stories reflected the events of the book.
So even though this may not be a traditional fairy tale, it's one of, if not the best, in the series, at least the best I've read so far.
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Once upon a time, there lived a king whose heart was heavy. He had been betrayed by the woman he loved. Though the queen's schemes were discovered before she could deprive her husband of his life, her dying curse killed something deep within him: his ability to love and trust.
And so he makes a terrible resolution: He will take a bride for one night only. In the morning she will face a horrible fate. Then he will choose another. Nothing can change his course until one brave woman steps forward. Shahrazad, the Storyteller's Daughter.
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Terrific first person account of Civil War; Confederate view.......1998-01-07
Very well written account of the Washington Artllery's engagements during the Civil War. Describes all major actions from the First Battle of Bull Run to the final surrender at Appomatox. You feel so close to the lives of the troops; makes you marvel at all the struggles and hardships that were endured. A must read for all Civil War buffs. First published in 1885 by Ticknor and Company of Boston. Reissued in a limited edition that is an exact reproduction of the original, with a few additions (an Introduction by Kenneth Urquhart, three additional illustrations, and the list of present-day officers) by The Pelican Publishing Company of New Orleans, June 1964.
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