The Tahir Shah Fiction Reader

<p>Although Tahir Shah began his writing career with travel literature in recent years he has embraced the realm of fiction producing groundbreaking work on an awe-inspiring scale.</p><p>           His first work within the genre was <em>Timbuctoo</em> a major foundation stone of historical fiction. A series of trailblazing bestselling novels quickly followed positioning Shah as a supreme force in imaginary realism worthy of Borges and Chatwin.    </p><p>           Shah's fictional corpus includes the first three titles within the <em>Jinn Hunter</em> series - a vast fantastical universe inspired by the realm of <em>A Thousand and One Nights</em>. It also includes <em>Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man</em> a novel that is as breathtaking in scope as it is in ingenuity.</p><p>In addition Shah's works of fiction encompass the hilarious trilogy of the wise fool of Oriental folklore Nasrudin and a dazzling array of short novels and stories - from the mesmerizing <em>Eye Spy</em> to <em>Godman</em> and from <em>Casablanca Blues</em> to <em>Scorpion Soup</em>.</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>The Tahir Shah Fiction Reader</em> includes chapters from -</p><p><br></p><p>Eye Spy</p><p>Godman</p><p>Casablanca Blues</p><p>Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man</p><p>Jinn Hunter: Book One - The Prism</p><p>Jinn Hunter: Book Two - The Jinnslayer</p><p>Jinn Hunter: Book Three - The Perplexity</p><p>Paris Syndrome</p><p>Scorpion Soup</p><p>Tales Told to a Melon</p><p>The Arabian Nights Adventures</p><p>The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin</p><p>The Peregrinations of the Perplexing Nasrudin</p><p>The Voyages and Vicissitudes of Nasrudin</p><p>Timbuctoo</p><p> </p>