It has four stories: "The Merchant and the Genie", "The First Old Man", "The Second Old Man" and "The Fisherman and The Genie".
As typical with the Arabian Nights, it is one story that branches out into multiple other stories.
It starts with a merchant who travels throughout the desert and stops for a rest. While snacking on dates he manages to kill genie's son and make genie mad.
The genie wants to kill him but the man is saved by the three stories that will be told by him and the other two passers by.
Eventually, genie lets him go. This is just how Arabian Nights were written - someone tells a story about someone else who tells a story to someone about someone else and when you are about to forget the main story, all the other stories tend to roll back into their starting point.
It is a really beautiful book with just a couple of sentences per page. It is cozy, it is heart-warming and it takes you to that Arabic world and is a simple and uncomplicated retelling of the originally complicated Arabian Nights.
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