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The Laughter of a Slave is a moving and powerful tale about the indomitable spirit of man, dramatically personified in the black slave Tatari. The beauty of the slave's free laughter is expressed through his love for his clandestine wife, the Armenian slave-girl Meherjan. And the poet Abu Ishaq sings of that spirit which chains can fetter but not break. Set in the Caliph Harun-al-Rashid's exotic Baghdad, full of sensuous scenes of love and cruelty, it is ...
This is collection of contemporary literature for young people from Asia and the Pacific counties which is widely read, published under the Asian/Pacific Copublication Programme (ACP) carried out by the Asian Cultural Centre for Unesco (ACCU), with the joint efforts of Unesco member states in the region, and in co-operation with Unesco. This is the 24rd publication of ACP, and 20 Asian/Pacific countries participated; this volume comprises ten stories from ten ...