The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia

Guppy, Shusha

ISBN 10: 184511695X / ISBN 13: 9781845116958

Verlag: Barbara Ward & Associates, 2009

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Shusha Guppy, editor of The London Paris Review and prize winning author, narrates this unique collection of Persian stories that have been handed down through the generations. Although their sources have been lost over the ages, their memory runs through the collective psyche of the Iranian people and each tale reflects a deep cultural and psychological insight into the attitudes, values and structures which constitute Iranian society.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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

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Titel: The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from ...
Verlag: Barbara Ward & Associates
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good