A Sister to Scheherazade
Isma, who has left her husband, picks the second wife who will take her place in his apartment, and then watches Hajila learn to walk out into the street unveiled while she herself is free and unmoored. The two women circle each other the way Scheherazade and her sister Dinarzade did, one talking through the night and one waiting at the foot of the bed. Second of the Algerian Quartet, and the volume that turns the frame of the Nights on the marriage it once concealed.
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- continues ↑ Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
- responds to ↑ One Thousand and One Nights
- ↓ So Vast the Prison
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