New NaqqaliGift Books
Small hardcover books, each gathering one thread of the Shahnameh: its insults, its courtships, its banners and its machines.
The Best Insults
A thousand years of trash talk.
Its champions cannot fight without first trading insults. Its kings write letters that would end any friendship. Its fathers, sons and brothers say things to one another that most families save for the ride home. Ferdowsi gives these exchanges as much craft as his battles, and many of them are very funny. This book collects thirty-six of the best.
Hardcover, 4.25 × 6.87 in, 96 pages, full colour · Available for the holidays
Pickup Lines
A thousand years of smooth talk.
Some let down their hair. Some show up at midnight. Some take you home to meet Daddy. (It does not go well.) The lovers of the Shahnameh do not wait to be asked. Here are their best lines. Use with caution.
Hardcover, 4.25 × 6.87 in · Coming soon
Heraldry
Know your enemy by his banner.
Kin or killer? Read the banner. A wolf. A lion. A dragon with a golden lion on the spear-point. In the Shahnameh, the banner tells you long before the face does. Meet the emblems of Iran’s great houses, and the blacksmith’s apron that flew above them all.
Hardcover, 4.25 × 6.87 in · Coming soon
Steampunk
Steampunk, a thousand years early.
Ferdowsi’s kings never met a problem they couldn’t over-engineer. Flying thrones. Iron horses full of fire. A wall of molten metal poured by a hundred thousand smiths. Here are the Shahnameh’s machines, marvels and magnificent bad ideas.
Hardcover, 4.25 × 6.87 in · Coming soon