![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before they can reach Tariq, he has run off with his friend Rahim to stop Shahrzad’s murder. Trying to escape the despotic king, Jahandar, Shahrzad’s father, flees with her sister to the childhood home of Tariq, who was close to Shahrzad in childhood. She is galvanized to do so after learning that her friend Shiva has died after marrying the king. The novel begins as Shahrzad volunteers to be a bride of King Khalid’s, despite knowing that it would take her life. Shahrzad resolves to set out in search of the truth about the king and stop the cyclical deaths. Instead, she comes dangerously close to falling in love with Khalid, discovering that there is more to his ritual than the stories tell. ![]() The novel’s protagonist is a 16-year-old girl named Shahrzad, who ostensibly volunteers to marry Khalid with a plan to avenge the death of her friend and the rest of his victims. It concerns an 18-year-old boy named Khalid, the royal Caliph of Khorasan, who participates in a ritual wherein he finds a new bride every morning and executes her before the next dawn. The book reinterprets the classic collection of Middle Eastern folk tales, Arabian Nights, in the context of a mystical love story set in Khorasan, the site of modern-day northwest Afghanistan. The Wrath and the Dawn is a 2015 work of young adult fiction by Renee Ahdieh. ![]()
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