Aladdin: A New Translation

by PauloLemosHorta (Author), YasmineSeale (Author), Yasmine Seale (Author), Paulo Lemos Horta (Author), Yasmine Seale (Author), Paulo Lemos Horta (Author)

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Hardcover
2018
$21.67

Long defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination-and occasionally dark themes-now comes to vibrant new life. In the capital of one of China's vast and wealthy kingdoms , begins Shahrazad, there lived Aladdin, a rebellious fifteen-year-old who falls prey to a double-crossing sorcerer and is ultimately saved by a princess.
One of the best-loved folktales of all time, Aladdin has been capturing the imagination of readers, illustrators and filmmakers since an eighteenth-century French publication first added the tale to The Arabian Nights. Here is an elegant, eminently readable rendition of Aladdin in what is destined to be a classic for decades to come.

Synopsis

Long defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination-and occasionally dark themes-now comes to vibrant new life. In the capital of one of China's vast and wealthy kingdoms , begins Shahrazad, there lived Aladdin, a rebellious fifteen-year-old who falls prey to a double-crossing sorcerer and is ultimately saved by a princess.

One of the best-loved folktales of all time, Aladdin has been capturing the imagination of readers, illustrators and filmmakers since an eighteenth-century French publication first added the tale to The Arabian Nights. Here is an elegant, eminently readable rendition of Aladdin in what is destined to be a classic for decades to come.

$21.67

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 27 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 163149516X
ISBN 13: 9781631495168

Media Reviews

A late addition to the Thousand and One Nights, this classic tale of magic lamps and jinni is revisited in a fresh translation. Themes of wish fulfillment and transformation have granted it infinite life, as fairy story, pantomime, film, and literary touchstone. If there are only seven basic stories in the world of literature, this is most probably one of them.--Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Paulo Lemos Horta is a professor of literature at NYU Abu Dhabi, and is the author of Marvellous Thieves. Yasmine Seale is a writer and translator from Arabic and French, whose writing has appeared in Harper's, the Nation, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in Istanbul.