DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

A Turkish Folktale

The Art of Behet Mahir

Carl Lindahl editor Warren S Walker editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:21st Jul '16

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This paperback is available in another edition too:

A Turkish Folktale cover

First published in 1996. A ten-hour tale, long enough to fill a night in the telling, artful enough to keep all its listeners eagerly awake: such marathon narratives constitute a recurrent theme found in folktales worldwide. This entire book records, annotates and interprets one such rare performance, by Behcet Mahir. a man who joins great storytellers whose art has survived their deaths and transcended their native communities to become the shared heritage of a worldwide audience of lovers of oral tales.

"...fascinating..." -- Turkish Studies Association Bulletin

ISBN: 9781138986244

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

166 pages