Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘The Fisherman and the Jinni’: understanding the story
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I can explain what happens in Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘The Fisherman and the Jinni’.
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'One Thousand and One Nights' is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales.
'One Thousand and One Nights' uses a frame story: a main story around shorter ones, all told by one person, Shahrazad.
Shahrazad tells these stories to her husband, Shahrayar, ending each installment on a cliffhanger.
In this way, Shahrayar, desperate to know the rest of the story, puts off killing her (his usual custom with his wives).
'The Fisherman and the Jinni' is one of the stories Shahrazad tells her husband.
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