Betsy Shidfar. Abu Nuwas

Betsy Shidfar. Abu Nuwas.

The biographical novel Abu Nuwas is like a skilfully woofed magic carpet transporting us to the age of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, which many of us very well remember from our childhood. A lucky reader of this book will find oneself keeping company to poet Abu Nuwas, the lead character of the novel, while he is visiting the reception hosted by the legendary caliph Harun al-Rashid, listening to a contest of the most famous poets, sharing shelter with Bedouins and wandering through the streets of night Bagdad, full of dangers and temptations.
Written more than thirty years ago, this novel has been waiting for its time to come in the family archive of B.Ya. Shidfar (1928-1993) — the famous scholar specialising in Arabic studies, translator of the poetry written by Abu Nuwas and many other Arabic poets.

 

 

Betsy Shidfar. Abu Nuwas. Moscow: the Mardjani Publishing House,2011, ISBN 978-5-903715-34-3