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ISBN 10: 1479810568

ISBN 13: 978-1479810567

Author: Al Ḥarīrī, Michael Cooperson, Abdelfattah Kilito

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 Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī 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.

Table of contents:

1. Ever the Twain Shall Meet

2. A Basran Boswell

3. Sing o' Rich, Sing o' Poor

4. Euphues' Damietta

5. Woolf at the Door

6. Plain Anglish

7. Gangs of New Saybin

8. Text/ile

9. Stringing Her Along

10. Alharet Eben Hammam His Tale

11. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Preacher

12. Arabia Absurda

13. The Cozening Quean of Babylon

14. Scot Free

15. Hobson's Choice

16. Con Safos

17. Back Words

18. A Scandal in Mesopotamia, or, The Tell-Tale Tart

19. My Man Zayd

20. Down Under

21. Down in Bam

22. Leveraging the Flow

23. Three Men in a Dub

24. Arabians Learn Arabian

25. De Froid Trempe

26. What the Dickens?

27. The Wild East

28. A Void in Samarkand

29. The Behn of His Exiftence

30. Stop Hole Abbey

31. A Hajji's Progrefs

32. Jury-Rigged

33. The Joy of Yarabic

34. The Fraud of Slavery

35. De-Canted

36. What Is the Question?

37. Off the Heezie

38. Wocky Talkie

39. The Seafarer

40. Iran go Bragh

41. The Cup of Counsel

42. Discruciate This!

43. Containing Great Variety of Matter

44. Near East Enders

45. Cat among the Pidgins

46. Araby

47. The Confidence Men

48. Alcoholics Eponymous

49. The Parliament of Rogues

50. See Saw Margery Daw

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