Ferdowsi

Shahnameh

The Epic of the Persian Kings
Illustrator: Rahmanian, Hamid / Übersetzer: Sadri, Ahmad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vividly translated and lushly illustrated, this edition of the Persian epic Shahnameh is fully illuminated for new audiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Illustrated Edition, Slipcased
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 367mm x 225mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 2990g
• ISBN-13: 9781631494468
• ISBN-10: 1631494465
• Artikelnr.: 48809522

Autorenporträt

A little over a thousand years ago the Persian poet Ferdowsi of Tous collected and put into heroic verse the millennium-old mythological and epic traditions of Iran. It took him thirty years to write the sixty thousand verses that comprise the Shahnameh or "The Book of Kings." This monumental work begins with legends of the birth of the Persian nationhood and ends with the Arab conquest of Iran. Written in the aftermath of that national trauma, Shahnameh was meant to harbor the Persian collective memory, language, and culture in a turbulent sea of many historical storms.