TALES FROM THE KATHASARITSAGARA

The Kathasaritsagara – the ocean of stories – is among the world’s great story collections, truly an ocean that carries the reader on its gentle swell to shores far and near, to places known and imagined, to people familiar and strange.

Priests and monks, gamblers and courtesans, kings and bandits, merchants and housewives, talking animals, divine and demonic beings – all cavort through its pages, in cities and forests, across seas and on islands. And in Arshia Sattar’s masterful translation (with a foreword by Wendy Doniger), the many universes of adventure the Kathasaritsagara holds within itself come alive for a new generation of readers.