Mullah Nasruddin (Tales of Wit and Wisdom)
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : June 2016
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780143330073
- Imprint : Puffin
- Age Group : Early Reader
- Language : English
- Number of Pages : 224 Pages
How do you stop yourself from being blown away all the way to China?How do you get top-notch services out of snooty Turk ...
How do you stop yourself from being blown away all the way to China?
How do you get top-notch services out of snooty Turkish bath attendants?
Why do camels not have wings?
As thirteen-year-old Shashank the Sad pores over his math homework, a little doodle appears and Mulla Nasruddin—MN to his friends—comes alive! MN’s never-ending stream of stories enthrals Shashank but make him wonder if his new friend is completely crazy. Then one day, Shashank finds himself trapped in a magic grid. Is there a connection between MN’s madcap stories and Shashank’s way out of the grid? Taking the much-loved tales of Mulla Nasruddin into a young boy’s richly imaginative world, Sampurna Chattarji’s retelling is one that will entertain and move both adults and children alike.
Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist, translator and children's author with thirteen books to her credit. The novel Land of the Well (2012) and Selected Poems of Joy Goswami (2014)-her translation of the poet's work-were published by HarperCollins. Her books on poetry include The Scorpion (Harper21, 2013), Absent Muses (Poetrywala, 2010), The Fried Frog (Scholastic, 2009) and Sight May Strike You Blind (Sahitya Akademi, 2008). Her collection of short stories about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love, was published by Penguin in 2013. Sampurna is the editor of Sweeping the Front Yard, an anthology of women's writing in English, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu. She was the 2012 Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
