Description:
"[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers--prose, rhymed prose, poetry--and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully." --Yasmine Al-Sayyad, New Yorker
A magnificent and richly illustrated volume--with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images--of the most famous story collection of all time.
Brief description: Yasmine Seale is a writer who works across poetry, translation, criticism, and visual art.
Review Quotes: [A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers--prose, rhymed prose, poetry--and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully.--Yasmine Al-Sayyad "New Yorker"