Nelida Pinon's desert voices.(novel Voices of the Desert) From: World Literature Today | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Norris, Nelida Galovic | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

PERHAPS IT IS MOST FITTING that, on the three hundredth anniversary of the publication by Antoine Galland of Les mille et une nuits--the first translation in the West of Alf layla wa-layla, known to English-speaking readers as the Arabian Nights--Nelida Pinon's most recent novel, Vozes do Deserto (2004; Voices of the desert), should draw on the emotional tensions borne daily by Scheherazade and thematize them into an intensely wrought portrayal of feminine fortitude. That a beloved...