‘The powerless must have a dream or two, dreams that break walls, dreams that go
through walls as if they are powerless.’
A magical tour de force by a writer at the height of her powers, When Dreams
Travel weaves round Scheherazade—or Shahrzad of the thousand and one nights—a
vibrant, inventive story about that old game that’s never played out: the quest
for love and power. The curtain opens on four figures, two men and two women.
There is the sultan who wants a virgin every night; there is his brother, who
makes an enemy of darkness and tries to banish it; and there are their