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Also by Abolqasem Ferdowsi:

Shahnameh, March 2007
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SHAHNAMEH
By: Abolqasem Ferdowsi

The Persian Book of Kings

Penguin
March 2007
On Sale: February 27, 2007
928 pages
ISBN: 0143104934
EAN: 9780143104933
Paperback
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The great national epic of Persia—the most complete English- language edition Wherever Persian influence has spread, the stories of the Shahnameh become deeply embedded in the culture, as their appearance in such novels as The Kite Runner amply attests. Among the greatest works of world literature, this prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi in the late tenth century, tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. The sweep and psychological depth of the Shahnameh is nothing less than magnificent. Now one of the greatest translators of Persian poetry, Dick Davis, presents Ferdowsi’s masterpiece in an elegant combination of prose and verse.

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