The Ninety-Ninth Bride

- Authors
- King, Gatherine F. & Catherine F. King
- Publisher
- Book Smugglers Publishing
- Tags
- girls , fantasy , subversive fairy tales , frame story , speculative fiction , story within a story , scheherazade , 1000 nights , adventure , ali baba , middle eastern fairy tale , magic , winter , sff , retelling , fairy tales , feminism , arabian nights , young adult
- Date
- 2014-12-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.13 MB
- Lang
- en
"When the Sultan has arrived and is at ease, ask that I tell you a story. Do you like stories?"
Dunya is just fifteen years of age when her father, the Grand Vizier, gives her over to the mad Sultan for his bride. Ninety-eight Sultanas before Dunya have been executed, slaughtered at the break of dawn following their first night with their new husband. But on her own wedding night, the ninety-ninth bride finds help from the mysterious and beautiful Zahra, who proposes to tell the Sultan a story...