With his charming style imbued with biting sarcasm, Joseph Root takes us in his novel "The Story of the Thousand and Two Nights" to the world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century, weaving for us a captivating story that reveals the falsity and fragility of the values of that aristocratic society that is on the verge of collapse.
At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy.