Moroccan novelist, essayist, and critic Kilito explores the narrative fiction tradition in Arabic literature, emphasizing those stories and novels that are best known to European readers. Among his topics are how we should read Kalila and Dimna, this verdant paradise, the exemplary intruder: Hayy ibn Yaqzan, the singing of the jinns, the portrait of the miser as a hero, whether A Thousand and One Nights is a boring book, and 24 hours in the life of Averroës. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)