Book · 1192 · Fiction
Layli and Majnun
Penguin Books, Limited (Penguin Random House) · 320 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score
Qays, an Arab poet, loves Layli so openly that his tribe calls him Majnun, the possessed, and her father marries her elsewhere. Poets from Anatolia to Mughal India rewrote Nezami's version for centuries.



