The Shaving of Shagpat
by George Meredith
370 pages~6 hrs
“The fate of a kingdom hangs by a hair.”
Shibli Bagarag is no ordinary barber; he is a man on a perilous mission to shave the most powerful and magically endowed head in the world. Set against a lush, fantastical Middle Eastern backdrop, this witty epic follows a quest where the fate of a city rests on the edge of a single razor.
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