| Scorpion Soup | |
| Author: | Tahir Shah |
| Cover Artist: | Rachana Shah |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Subject: | Various |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Publisher: | Secretum Mundi Publishing |
| Pub Date: | June 8, 2013 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages: | 136 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-9572429-1-3 |
| Preceded By: | Timbuctoo |
Scorpion Soup is a limited edition collection of stories by the travel writer and novelist Tahir Shah. The book was released on June 8, 2013 by Secretum Mundi Publishing.[1] [2] [3]
The collection is unusual in that all 18 stories link into one another, starting with a first person story about a fisherman, and returning to that same character. Inspired by the Arabian Nights, Shah experiments with interwoven layers, allowing one tale to flow into the next in a technique known as the Frame story. As occurs in the Arabian Nights, there is often no ending to one story before the next begins. The book has been inspired and is an homage to his grandfather, Ikbal Ali Shah.
Scorpion Soup is illustrated with fold out maps from the Atlas Maior by the great seventeenth century Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu.