Original title: همای همایون

Author: Khwaju of Kerman

Preface: Nahid Norozi

Original language: Persian

Translator: Nahid Norozi

Year of publication: 2016

Number of pages: 396

ISBN: 9788857537351

The Persian prince Homay, seeing the portrait of Homayun, 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 an enchanted fortress. . At a certain 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 with his beloved. The beautiful Homayun also falls in love with him, but there will be obstacles of all kinds that delay the union of lovers, including deceit, wars, prison and betrayal.