Product Description Many years ago, sheherzad had saved her life by telling the prince 1001 stories night after night. Now she has grandchildren who want to hear bedtime stories from her. But she seems to have lost the yarns of fantasy that had once helped her escape beheading; she has forgotten all the stories. Thus begins intizar husain’s latest and most exquisite collection of stories. He has used motifs and images from an eclectic range of sources such as the jataka katha, panchatantra, katha sagar, as well as traditions of the qissa-kahani and dastangoi from the early history of islam to tell tales that seamlessly weave in the old and the new, the historical and the contemporary. About the Author Intizar Husain was born in the United Provinces, India, on 21 December 1925. He emigrated to Pakistan in 1947 and lives in Lahore. A chronicler of change, Husain has written five novels and published seven collections of short stories. Naya Ghar (The New