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This innovative novel combines Spanish folktales with Native American legends to create a captivating Southwestern version ofThe Arabian Nights

Like Scheherezade, who ensured her survival by telling her royal husband stories, the title character in Rudolfo Anayas creative retelling ofThe Arabian Nightsmust entertain the recently widowed governor with legends of Nueva Mexicana, or she and her fellow captives will die.

With fresh snow covering the high peaks of Sangre de Cristo, a group of native dissidents prepare for revolt. In seventeenth-century Santa Fe, insurrection against a colony of the king of Spain is punishable by death. A Spaniard loyal to the governor names twelve conspirators. One of them is a young woman. Raised in a mission church, fifteen-year-old Serafina speaks excellent Spanish and knows many of her countrys traditional folktales. She and the governor strike a bargain: Each evening, she will tell him acuento. If he likes it, he will release one prisoner the following day.

The twelve tales recounted here mirror the struggle of a divided country. They include the social and political symbolism behind Beauty and the Beast and retell Cinderella as Mirandas Gift. Interspersed with these timelesscuentosis the story of Serafina herself, and that of a people battling to preserve a vanishing way of life under the long shadow of the Inquisition.

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