New NaqqaliThe Definitive Shahnameh · Hardcover
The same complete translation in three large hardcover volumes (8.5 × 11 in) with dust jackets, each jacket in the manner of a Persian miniature. Each volume is sold separately.
The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi: Volume One, HardcoverThe world begins, a tyrant falls, and the heroes are born.On Amazon November 27 · $179.99
The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi: Volume Two, HardcoverHeroes fall, kings disappear, and the heroic age comes to an end.On Amazon November 27 · $179.99
The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi: Volume Three, HardcoverKings rise, an empire flowers, and the long story of Iran comes to its end.On Amazon November 27 · $179.99Volume One · Hardcover
The world begins, a tyrant falls, and the heroes are born.
Volume One begins the first complete English translation of the Shahnameh in rhyming verse. The world begins. A tyrant grows serpents from his shoulders, and a blacksmith raises his apron and brings him down. A king divides the world among his sons, and brothers become enemies. A boy raised by a magical bird fathers the greatest hero of all. A father kills his son without knowing him, and an innocent prince rides through fire.
Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5 × 11 in, 500 pages · On Amazon November 27 · $179.99
Volume Two · Hardcover
Heroes fall, kings disappear, and the heroic age comes to an end.
Heroes fall. Kings disappear. Lovers wait in the dark. A long war ends at last, a new faith comes to Iran, and two great heroes meet in a fight that neither can win. Then Iskandar, Alexander the Great, sweeps in from the west and takes the world. Volume Two is the end of the heroic age.
Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5 × 11 in · On Amazon November 27 · $179.99
Volume Three · Hardcover
Kings rise, an empire flowers, and the long story of Iran comes to its end.
The heroes are gone; the kings remain. Dynasties rise from exile, crowns are won from between lions, and battles of wit are fought across a chessboard. Kings love, rule wisely and badly, and are betrayed by their own sons. Then the last king is overthrown and killed, and an empire four centuries old falls. Volume Three completes the Shahnameh.
Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5 × 11 in · On Amazon November 27 · $179.99