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Eight centuries ago, in the latter days of the Islamic golden age, a young girl arrived in the Khwarazmian city of Tus. She was a slave. But she learned.Eight centuries ago, the Mongols blazed across the map, swept Khwarazm into the ash heap of history, and took all they desired from the ruins. They took…
Sitara lost everything when the Mongols invaded Tus. The kind mistress who treated her like a daughter, the books she had come to love, her hopes for the future–all burned to ash and pierced by swords and arrows. Now she stands on the strange and distant steppe where, after working her way into the Mongol…
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