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Impostures (Paperback): Al-Hariri

Impostures (Paperback)

Al-Hariri; Translated by Michael Cooperson; Foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito

Series: Library of Arabic Literature

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One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the Year Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, 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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Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
Release date: October 2021
Authors: Al-Hariri
Translators: Michael Cooperson
Foreword by: Abdelfattah Kilito
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1056-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
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LSN: 1-4798-1056-8
Barcode: 9781479810567

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