Homay and Homayun
Homay and Homayun, A novel of love and adventure in medieval Persia
Original title: همای همایون
Author: Khwaju Kermani
Preface: Johann Christoph Bürgel
Original language: Persian
Translator: Nahid Norozi
Publisher: Mimesis
Year of publication: 2017
Number of pages: 398
ISBN: 8857537358ISBN-13

Summary
The Persian prince Homāy, seeing the portrait of Homāyun, daughter of the emperor of China, falls madly in love with it and embarks on a long and dangerous journey during which he will have to face brigands and cannibals, and free the cousin of his beloved, a prisoner in a fortress. enchanted. At some point he will have to abandon for love the throne offered to him by a people he met in Central Asia and, having finally arrived in China, he tries through intriguing and numerous events, to meet his beloved. Even the beautiful Homāyun falls in love with him, but there will be obstacles of all kinds that will delay the union of lovers, including deceptions, wars, imprisonments and betrayals….

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