{"product_id":"9781771967686","title":"Finding Aladdin","description":"\r\n  \u003cp\u003e\r\n    \u003cstrong\u003e“Completely beguiling.”—William Dalrymple, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Road\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003e\r\n    \u003cstrong\u003e\r\n      \u003cem\u003eFinding Aladdin\u003c\/em\u003e is a tale full of strange and wonderful twists that celebrates one of the world’s greatest storytellers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cem\u003eThe Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/em\u003e were first translated into European languages in the 1700s, they caused a sensation—and none more so than “Aladdin,” the tale of a good-for-nothing layabout who happened on a magic lamp. Always the most popular of the \u003cem\u003eNights\u003c\/em\u003e stories, “Aladdin” mystified scholars for 300 years; while they could trace other tales from Arab and Persian folklore, this one seemed to have been charmed out of thin air.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003eThen a tattered, anonymous manuscript was discovered in the Vatican. It revealed Aladdin’s creator to be Hanna Diab, a young Syrian who had travelled to Paris with a French treasure hunter. Even more amazing, it showed that Hanna had conjured the story from his own extraordinary adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003eIn a captivating narrative of literary deduction, Matthew Teller restores authorship to a master storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Teller, Matthew","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":67625452929204,"sku":"9781771967686","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/5072\/8116\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b4500100-9afe-445f-bf69-4baec59f3c3a.jpg?v=1794594635","url":"https:\/\/runningthegoat.com\/products\/9781771967686","provider":"Running the Goat Books \u0026 Broadsides","version":"1.0","type":"link"}