A brilliant tour de force, The Knight and His Shadow tells the tale of Lat-Sukab 's quest to find his former lover, Khadidja, who writes him to "come before it's too late." As Lat-Sukab recounts his past with Khadidja, reality shapeshifts and takes on a dreamlike quality. He describes how Khadidja is hired by a wealthy stranger to sit before an open door and tell stories into an uncertain darkness, unable to see the person to whom she speaks...