Netgalley: Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave by Yann Damezin

 

Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave by Yann Damezin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a beautiful book, the illustrations are so wonderful. This is the tragic love story of Qays ibn al-Moullawwah and Layla al-Amiriyyaa which is so famous around the literary world. Here, it is an English version of the poem Layla and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi and not the original arab poem.
To be honest, I didn't like either the changes to the story or this English translation which changed completely the mood of the story or that ending for a femenist purpose.

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