A01=Shusha Guppy
anthology
Author_Shusha Guppy
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Category=FN
Category=JBGB
dervish
dragon
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eq_fiction
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eq_society-politics
fable
fairy
fairy-tale
fairytale
Firdowsi
folk tale
giant
history
iran
iranian people
jinn
magic
magician
middle east
moral
oral tradition
persian culture
prince
princess
Rumi
saint
society
sorcerer
south western asia
traditional story collection
winged horse
Product details
- ISBN 9781845116958
- Weight: 224g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This magical collection of stories, gathered from the rich treasury of Persian folk and fairytales, tells of love and longing, fate and human ingenuity, loss and grace. Although sources of these tales have been lost over the ages, their memory runs through the collective psyche of the Iranian people. Handed down through generations, told by professional storytellers in bazaars and gatherings, these tales have been made popular the world over by great poets such as Rumi and Firdowsi. At the same time, beneath these charmed narratives, they reflect deep cultural and psychological insights into the attitudes, values and structures which constitute Iranian society. In her own unique voice - with style, charm and humour - Shusha Guppy narrates these timeless fables of princes and princesses; dervishes and miracle-working saints; jinns and giants; flame-breathing dragons and winged horses; sorcerers and magicians.
Shusha Guppy was born and brought up in Iran. She went to Paris when she was 17 to study at the Sorbonne, and moved to London in the early 1960s. London editor of The Paris Review, she contributes to publications on both sides of the Atlantic. A well-known writer and singer/songwriter, she is also the author of the prize winning The Blindfold Horse and A Girl in Paris (both Tauris Parke Paperbacks).
