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Annie Messina brings her readers into the world of A Thousand and One Nights for this tale of love, treachery, and intrigue, of scented gardens and splashing fountains. The Myrtle and the Rose “describes in highly aestheticized terms the love affair between a prince in an uncharted Arabian kingdom and a beautiful slave boy.” --Publishers Weekly The author of three novels written under her own name, in 1982 Messina took the pseudonym Gamîla Ghâli, fearing the uproar this novel would cause. She left it to her friend, Leonardo Sciascia, to introduce Ghâli to the Italian reading public. Annie Messina brings both her Sicilian heritage and her years of living in Egypt to bear on this orientalizing fiction. With "The Myrtle & The Rose" she carries on the literary tradition of her aunt, Maria Messina (author of "A House in the Shadows"), and introduces the first of her “Islamic Trilogy” to the reading public. A review in "Le Monde" of the French translation of "Il mirto e la rosa," places Annie Messina alongside authors such as Marguerite Yourcenar, Mary Renault and Mari Mori, women who wove novels about the passions of men, and describes this novel as a “long variation on the theme [each

Author

Annie Messina (Gamîla Ghâli)

Publisher

Italica Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780934977456

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities