Grandmother's Stories

Tales from Old Syria

Reda al-Dabbagh

Published: 27 July 2017

Format: Paperback

Edition: 1st

Extent: 210 pp.

ISBN: 9781941634783

RRP: £8.99

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A wicked genie, a foolish sultan, a hungry hyena, a runaway princess...

Grandmother's Stories: Tales from Old Syria is a dazzling collection of traditional Eastern stories transcribed and translated for modern readers. With colourful characters, exotic settings, and plenty of twists and turns, these are fairy tales - but not as you know them.

Reda al-Dabbaq is a collector of Arabic literature, and has a passion for translating unpublished works of classical Arabic fiction. He comes from an important leather-manufacturing family in Syria and was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. This is his first English translation of old Arabic folk tales.