Shadow Spinner

Paperback, 219 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1999 by Aladdin Paperbacks.

ISBN:
978-0-689-83051-8
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OCLC Number:
42869897

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3 stars (1 review)

Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day—providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.

It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories—ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, Marjan is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, coaxing strangers to tell her stories and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. Marjan, who had been just a quiet spinner of tales when the story began, becomes the center of a story more surprising than she ever imagined.

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Review of 'Shadow Spinner' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

junior fiction that i'm reading alongside daughter -
enjoyed it enough to make note of it. liked the way each chapter opened with a set of instructions for story telling & life. think it's valuable to say such things directly - especially when dealing with the junior fiction audience; subtlety can be lost too easily there.

also read seven daughters and seven sons but can't give the same recommendation. it felt more like a romance novel than something Sonlight assigns for cultural understanding. actually, the sexuality of the novel was another surprise within a Sonlight pick.

Subjects

  • Juvenile fiction
  • Interpersonal relations
  • People with disabilities
  • Storytellers
  • Scheherazade (Legendary character)
  • Fiction

Places

  • Iran