{"id":14403,"date":"2011-11-01T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T01:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14403"},"modified":"2011-11-01T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T01:14:43","slug":"the-teller-of-tales-is-reviewed-by-aria-fani-on-tehran-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14403","title":{"rendered":"The Teller of Tales is Reviewed by Aria Fani on Tehran Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aria <a title=\"Aria Fani\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ariafani.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fani<\/a> has published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/tehranbureau\/2011\/11\/the-teller-of-tales-nobility-is-not-in-the-title-but-the-deed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tehran Bureau<\/a> a review of my book, The <a title=\"The Teller of Tales\" href=\"http:\/\/junctionpress.com\/books\/newman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Teller of Tales<\/a>, which is a translation of the first five stories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cais-soas.com\/CAIS\/Literature\/Shahnameh\/shahnameh.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Shahnameh<\/a>, The Book of Kings, also known as the Persian (or Iranian) national epic. Fani calls my translation &#8220;delightful to read,&#8221; but what I like most about the review is that he places the book in the context of how the Shahnameh has &#8220;dominated and shaped the national psyche of Iranian;&#8221; and he gets the through-line of the stories I chose to translate, pointing out that &#8220;the nature of the social order is the central theme&#8221; of the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2184\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2184 alignright\" title=\"Shahnameh cover publicity version\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shahnameh-cover-publicity-version-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t do much to promote the book when it came out in April because my life simply did not permit it, but I will be starting to get the word out little by little. You can order the book from the publisher, <a title=\"The Teller of Tales\" href=\"http:\/\/junctionpress.com\/books\/newman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Junction Press<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re interested in my giving a reading\/talk on my translation, you can contact me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\/contact-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The Shahnameh is a book that would be of interest in the context of a wide range of artistic, scholarly, intellectual and even political concerns.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted a little bit about the Shahnameh already. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\/2011\/03\/15\/persian-poetry-tuesday-the-prologue-to-the-story-of-rostam-and-sohrab-in-ferdowsis-shahnameh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\/2010\/03\/27\/translating-classical-persian-literature-introducing-ferdowsi-and-the-shahnameh-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\/2009\/10\/24\/zahhak-wed-need-to-hear-his-mothers-story-on-ekleksographia\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aria Fani has published on Tehran Bureau a review of my book, The Teller of Tales, which is a translation of the first five stories of Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, also known as the Persian (or Iranian) national epic. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran-international-issues","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14403"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14417,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}