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- Author: Steven Jay Epstein
- Publisher: SILKWORM BOOKS
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 113
- ISBN-10: 9749575873
- ISBN-13: 9789749575871
- Format: 13.2 x 19.6 x 0.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Here in one slim volume is a selection of the best-known and best-loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng who matches his wits with merchants, monks, and kings. We find a quick-witted toad that terrifies tigers, a turtle that flies, a cadre of snails that race a rabbit, and a mynah bird that speaks five languages fluently.
The reader may recognize a whisper of Aesop or a Jataka tale, but each story is distinctively Lao, retold with Lao humor and charm reflecting a Buddhist culture in a Marxist state. Works by Anoulom Souvandouane, the foremost illustrator in Laos, enliven the stories.
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- Author: Steven Jay Epstein
- Publisher: SILKWORM BOOKS
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 113
- ISBN-10: 9749575873
- ISBN-13: 9789749575871
- Format: 13.2 x 19.6 x 0.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Here in one slim volume is a selection of the best-known and best-loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng who matches his wits with merchants, monks, and kings. We find a quick-witted toad that terrifies tigers, a turtle that flies, a cadre of snails that race a rabbit, and a mynah bird that speaks five languages fluently.
The reader may recognize a whisper of Aesop or a Jataka tale, but each story is distinctively Lao, retold with Lao humor and charm reflecting a Buddhist culture in a Marxist state. Works by Anoulom Souvandouane, the foremost illustrator in Laos, enliven the stories.
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