Description: About this Item The item is a book Hardback The Author Name is Abdelfattah Kilito The Title is Impostures Condition New Other Comments Pages Count - 544. Binding type - Hardcover. Content Language - English Category - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern Product Description - Fifty 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 Abu Zayd al-Saruji 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. We Use Stock Images Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item. When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details are provided automatically from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions. The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling. Gift IdeasThis is a great Christmas gift idea. Hours of ServiceWe have many warehouses, some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday. Location ID 9000z iHaveit SKU ID 166731624
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Genre/Subject: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern
Brand: Library of Arabic Literature
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UPC: 9781479800841
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Book Title: Impostures
Number of Pages: 534 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 1.6 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Middle Eastern
Genre: Literary Collections
Item Weight: 33.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Al-ḤArīRī
Book Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
