Tourists A Novel Author:Lisa Goldstein In her third novel, Goldstein (The Red Magician) mixes Arthurian legends, an Arabian Nights' fantasy and a dash of Latin American magic realism to tell of an American family's adventures in the mythical Middle Eastern country of Amaz. — Dr. Mitchell Parmenter has come to Amaz with an ancient manuscript containing the legends of the country's one-... more »time ruler, the Jewel King, and directions to finding his fabled sword. While the mild-mannered, slightly befuddled scholar learns he is not the only one in Amaz interested in the sword, his precocious adolescent daughter Casy meets colorful characters on Twenty-fifth November Street, a strip of junk and antique shops. Her younger sister Angie compulsively writes a history of the imaginary kingdoms of Borol and Marol, paralleling the legends her father is researching.« less