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Forget Siskel and Ebert. TIME consulted a real professional: Zena, a psychic and tarot-card reader with offices on Bleecker Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Her predictions...
Nevertheless, the book is a "good read" in the best sense of that overused phrase. It sustains the reader's interest, it has pleasantly rich descriptions of the blueness of seas and skies, and the vignettes of life in the village of Santiago are absorbing. Best of all, it is entirely possible to revel in the dainty perfection of the symbolism contained in Benitez's flowers, stars, soil and smoke without considering the triteness...
...both Harvard student and a reader of The Crimson, I feel intellectually insulted that he could waste entire pages of the editorial section with this kind of banter...
...account with a wealth of genuine detail that French Orientalists could only dream of (when they weren't dreaming about those slave-girls they bought in Cairo). At the same time, he knows his surroundings well enough to misrepresent them subtly: Damascus appears slightly trated up for the Western reader, slightly more quaint and foreign than it actually is. A sly native salesmanship pervades the book, turning everyday Syrian banalities into a world of mystery and intrigue...
Damascus Nights heaves with charming characters, gripping tales, and local color. The reader can't but enjoy the down-to-earth, homespun appearance of its simple stories. But the novel has a calculated air of Oriental gloss; you can't escape the feeling that Schami is secretly laughing at you for lapping it up. The Thousands Night and a Night appeals precisely because it reveals a different narrative culture unself-consciously; Damascus Nights has been deliberately pre-packaged for Western audiences...