Description: Impostures, Hardcover by Al-hariri; Cooperson, Michael (TRN); Kilito, Abdelfattah (FRW), ISBN 1479800848, ISBN-13 9781479800841, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Longlist, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, in the translation category Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in the Literature Category Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways An 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.
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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
