A Hundred and One Nights

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780814745199
  • 06 september 2016
  • 416 pagina's
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Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier's daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. It is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition.



A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like the celebrated Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Scheherazade, the vizier’s gifted daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. Here, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasure, disappearing brides, cannibal demon-women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.
Distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition, these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, including Indian and Chinese antecedents, and features a frame story possibly older than its more famous sibling. This vibrant translation of A Hundred and One Nights promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.
An English-only edition.

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en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
06 september 2016
Aantal pagina's
416
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdredacteur
Bruce Fudge
Hoofduitgeverij
New York University Press

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Eerste Vertaler
Bruce Fudge

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Extra groot lettertype
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Product breedte
157 mm
Product hoogte
30 mm
Product lengte
229 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
152 mm
Verpakking hoogte
229 mm
Verpakking lengte
229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
816 g

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9780814745199

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