Description: Further DetailsTitle: ImposturesCondition: NewISBN-10: 1479810568EAN: 9781479810567ISBN: 9781479810567Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/09/2021Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: al-ḤarīrīTranslator: Michael CoopersonContributor: Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by), Michael Cooperson (Translated by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Library of Arabic LiteratureItem Weight: 708gRelease Year: 2021 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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Book Title: Impostures
Publication Name: Impostures
Title: Impostures
ISBN-10: 1479810568
EAN: 9781479810567
ISBN: 9781479810567
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Year: 2021
Release Date: 07/09/2021
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Author: al-Ḥarīrī
Translator: Michael Cooperson
Contributor: Michael Cooperson (Translated by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
Item Weight: 708g
