26 November 2013
Fifth View, Fifth Floor, Waterstone’s Piccadilly,
203–206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LE
Doors open: 18.30hrs; Presentation: 19.15hrs. Free entry.
Drinks and canapés served.
TEAS is proud to host the official launch of the fascinating work The Incomplete Manuscript by Professor Kamal Abdulla of Baku Slavic University, in its English translation.
The novel raises questions of appearance and reality, truth, myth and story-telling. A modern-day narrator tells how he found an old manuscript in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, which turns out to contain two interwoven, disparate tales. For the longer of the two stories in the manuscript, Kamal Abdulla has taken the Book of Dada Gorgud, a medieval Turkic epic chronicling the exploits of the Oghuz tribe, and invented a first, incomplete, draft of the tales. His draft is an account by the bard Dada Gorgud of an investigation ostensibly to unmask a traitor amongst the Oghuz. It introduces many of the characters from the epic, including Fatima of the Forty Lovers and the shape-shifting One-Eyed Ogre. Interspersed amongst Dada Gorgud’s account of the investigation is another tale, that of Shah Ismail Khata’i, founder of the Iranian Safavid state and poet-ruler of Iran in the early 16th century.
The launch will include presentations by Professor Kamal Abdulla and translator Anne Thompson, in addition to a dramatisation of certain key scenes by members of ALOFF Theatre, and a question-and-answer session. A limited number of free copies of the book will be available.
All are welcome to attend, but please register at http://bit.ly/
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