`Magical and inviting ... these arabesques afford the reader inordinate pleasure.' Livres-Hebdo `Surrender to the ravishments first, get lost, skid with thrilled indecisiveness across the mosaic tile of each page. Venture out with the author onto the roads and dizzying crossroads he negotiates as he plots a course between past and present, old haunts and new horizons, in the lands of Araby ...' The Age