Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh : Film Tie-in Edition

The women of harem are teaching the new sultan how to die through love.'From a publisher committed to literary fantasy comes a work worthy of the category from Robert Irwin whose knowledge of Arab culture allows him to fabricate an Arabian Night that is memorably erotic and very funny. Homosexual giraffes, congress with crodiles, a phalomancer who has a sideline in vulvascopy - what a curious cornucopia! Wonderful!'Brian Case in Time Out A feminist erotic novella with the sultan the plaything of the harem. Erudite and zany and wonderfully funny. From the author of the acclaimed "The Arabian Nightmare" comes a dark and mysterious tour-de-force of fantasy, eroticism and storytelling--"exotic and sexy" said The Guardian.

Finally published in the United States, Robert Irwin's gripping fantasy tale of sensuality and ancient Arabian culture takes readers on a kaleidoscopic ride of deception, temptation and greed.

The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from The Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem's concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions of the harem. But evil flourishes in a bed of boredom and, after allowing the Viper to drink at the Tavern of the Perfume-Makers, Orkhan enters a maze of complicated relationships, all orchestrated by the devotees of the Prayer-Cushion movement. Temptation, seduction, story-telling and magic are used to lure the Sultan towards a climax which is designed to be both ecstatic and fatal.

Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh is a masterful blend of historical fact, dark humor and robust fantasy. The tale features sex with men, women, fairies and alligators--there is something here to titillate every desire, and a wonderful story to boot.
About the AuthorRobert Irwin studied Modern History at Oxford and taught Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. In addition to Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh and The Arabian Nightmare, he has written four other novels and is the editor of Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature.

Orkhan is released from a lifetime's captivity in the Cage of the Imperial Harem and finds himself hailed by the Harem's concubines as their new Sultan. But flowers of evil flourish in a bed of boredom and, in this novel of bizarre erotic fantasy, Orkhan, who entertains the fantasy that he is indeed the master of his women, enters a maze of perverse relationships masterminded by the devotees of the Prayer-Cushion movement. Temptation, seduction, story-telling and magic are used to lure the Sultan towards a climax which is designed to be simultaneously ecstatic and fatal. Featuring as it does sex with men, women, fairies and alligators, this strange little book will delight necrophiliacs, masochists, transvestites, eunuchs, ironists and lovers of beauty and ugliness everywhere. A comedy on a Turkish harem where a new sultan is given an education in sex. The curriculum includes having your future foretold from the shape of your penis, a bit of sadism with a leather strap and sex talk Comédies au coeur d' un harem turc