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Cover artist Rachana Shah Subject Various Media type Print (Hardback) Genre Fiction | 4.4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date June 8, 2013 Originally published 8 June 2013 Page count 136 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Secretum Mundi Publishing Similar Timbuctoo, Beyond the Devil's Teeth, Sorcerer's Apprentice, House of the Tiger King, Trail of Feathers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tahir shah and the origin of scorpion soup
Scorpion Soup is a limited edition collection of stories by the travel writer and novelist Tahir Shah. The book was released on June 8, 2013 by Secretum Mundi Publishing.
Contents
- Tahir shah and the origin of scorpion soup
- Tahir shah and the introduction to scorpion soup
- Overview
- The stories of Scorpion Soup
- Illustrations
- Reviews
- References
Tahir shah and the introduction to scorpion soup
Overview
The collection is unusual in that all 18 stories link into one another, starting with a first person story about a fisherman, and returning to that same character. Inspired by the Arabian Nights, Shah experiments with interwoven layers, allowing one tale to flow into the next in a technique known as the Frame story. As occurs in the Arabian Nights, there is often no ending to one story before the next begins. The book has been inspired and is an homage to his grandfather, Ikbal Ali Shah.
The stories of Scorpion Soup
Illustrations
Scorpion Soup is illustrated with fold out maps from the Atlas Maior by the great seventeenth century Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu.