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Khosrow and Shirin

Nezami Ganjavi author Dick Davis translator Dick Davis editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Publishing:7th Aug '25

£18.99

This title is due to be published on 7th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin shares a shelf with the most intensely romantic classic stories readers love, from Tristan and Isolde to Layla and Majnun to Romeo and Juliet to Gatsby and Daisy.

The love between an Iranian prince (Khosrow) and an Armenian princess (Shirin) is at the centre of this tumultuous tale in which the powers of politics and warfare intertwine with no less powerful forces of erotic desire and the quest for personal and spiritual fulfilment.

Davis has captured the energy and poetry of Nezami’s original in modern verse. Khosrow and Shirin will enchant both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new audience for Nezami’s masterpiece.

Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin. The medieval Persian epic ‘Khosrow and Shirin’ is a rich and gloriously excessive love story -- Michael Dirda * The Washington Post *

ISBN: 9780143138631

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 200g

448 pages