Description: Further DetailsTitle: ImposturesCondition: NewEAN: 9781479800841ISBN: 9781479800841Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/29/2020Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmTranslator: Michael CoopersonContributor: Michael Cooperson (Translated by), Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1479800848Description: One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the YearWinner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation CategoryShortlist, 2021 National Translation AwardFinalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature CategoryFifty rogue’s tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature.Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty different registers of English, from the distinctive literary styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation.An English-only edition.Country/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: al-ḤarīrīGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Library of Arabic LiteratureRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Impostures
Title: Impostures
EAN: 9781479800841
ISBN: 9781479800841
Release Date: 05/29/2020
Release Year: 2020
Translator: Michael Cooperson
Contributor: Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by)
ISBN-10: 1479800848
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
Book Title: Impostures
Number of Pages: 534 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 1.6 in
Topic: Middle Eastern
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Literary Collections
Item Weight: 33.7 Oz
Author: Al-ḤArīRī
Item Length: 9.3 in
Book Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
