Used Book – The Storyteller, Omair Ahmad, Françoise Nagel

In the eighteenth century, Ahmad Shah Abdali destroyed the glorious city of Delhi. Fleeing the carnage, a poet and storyteller is led by destiny to a Pashtun - and thus enemy - palace, where the beautiful and solitary Begum, mistress of the house, invites him to tell a story in exchange for her hospitality. Thus begins a storytelling contest between them that transforms into a duel of love, where each person's narrative intertwines with and responds to the other's, drawing them to the farthest reaches of forbidden desire and love. Against a backdrop of war and devastation, at the twilight of the Mughal empire, The Storyteller takes the reader through the dazzling twists and turns of an encounter that suggests no story is ever finished, for it takes many terrible and wonderful twists and turns in the garden of life and love before reaching its horizon.

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