Summary
"Award-winning writer and master storyteller Karim Alrawi draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture in creating these enchanting tales that are a feast for young imaginations. These stories take readers of every age on a delightful literary, cultural and culinary odyssey. A profusion of unforgetta... Full description
- The meal and the conversation, introduction
- Juicy apricots
- The lion repents
- The story and the chickpeas
- A pot of coins
- Fish soup in Gaza
- Abu Nawas tells a tale
- Why chicken and ostrich cannot fly
- The last supper
- Student of the marshlands
- The brickmaker's hoard
- The sultan and his wazir
- The kindly old man
- The genie in the sack
- The dream garden
- In happiness and health, afterword.