An Arabian Night: Nazin’s Dream is a short but profound and very
touching story about love, life and people written by Garon Whited.
Nazin is a poet in the city of Baghdad who
falls in love with a beautiful and skillful courtesan, Jezira to whom he spends
lavishly. After his wealth is depleted, Nazin finds himself without Jezira,
without money and without friends. More than the loss of his wealth, however,
is a deeper sense of loss that leaves Nazin with a broken heart and makes him
seek for freedom from pain and life itself in exchange for everything he has.
This is a wonderful book that subtly
describes the various natures of men. In a very short story, the author is able
to depict the meaning of love, greed, duplicity and desperation. Written in a
formal style, that sounds like a classic novel, which clearly portrays settings
as well as characters’ emotions, the book can be read in fifteen minutes but
will stay in memory far longer.
The author creates minimal but memorable
characters and two of them I find very endearing. To say that the ending is
surprising is, for me, an understatement because I can say it is dumbfounding
that I had to reread a few paragraphs back to fully comprehend what happened.
Needless to say I enjoyed this short book a lot.
Congratulations to Garon Whited
(@GaronWhited) on such an amazing book. For more
books by the author, click HERE.
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