Scorpion Soup

{{Infobox book | name = Scorpion Soup | title_orig = | translator = | image = Scorpion Soup.jpg | caption = Hardcover edition | author = Tahir Shah | cover_artist = Rachana Shah | language = English | country = United Kingdom | editions = | series = | subject = Various | genre = Fiction | publisher = Secretum Mundi Publishing | pub_date = June 8, 2013 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback) | pages = 136 | isbn = 978-0-9572429-1-3 | oclc = | 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.<ref>[http://www.secretum-mundi.com/ Secretum Mundi Publishing]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Scorpion-Soup-Tahir-Shah/dp/0957242913/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1421998882&sr=1-1|publisher=amazon.com|title = Scorpion Soup by Tahir Shah|accessdate=2015-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17258043-scorpion-soup?from_search=true|publisher=goodreads.com|title=Scorpion Soup: A story in a story by Tahir Shah |accessdate=2015-01-23}}</ref>

==Overview== 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.

==The stories of Scorpion Soup== *The Fisherman *Idyll *Capilongo *Mittle-Mittle *The Tale of the Rusty Nail *The Shop That Sold Truth *Frogland *The Book of Pure Thoughts *The Fish’s Dream *Scorpion Soup *The Clockmaker’s Bride *The Most Foolish of Man *The Man Whose Arms Grew Branches *The Hermit *Cat, Mouse *The Singing Serpents *The Princess of Zilzilam

==Illustrations== ''Scorpion Soup'' is illustrated with fold out maps from the ''Atlas Maior'' by the great seventeenth century Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu.

==Reviews== * [http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2013/04/tahir-shah-scorpion-soup/ Stories within stories: A review of Tahir Shah’s ‘Scorpion Soup’] in The Toronto Review of Books. * [http://bookfabulous.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/review-scorpion-soup-by-tahir-shah.html Review: Scorpion Soup] in Bookfabulous blog. * [http://mystical-faction.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/scorpion-soup-by-tahir-shah-book-review.html Book Review] in Mystical Faction blog. * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140116141849/http://www.uncustomarybookreview.com/2013/12/scorpion-soup/ Like a Moth to a Flame]}} in The Uncustomary book review. * [http://whatnikkiread.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/scorpion-soup-an-intriguing-story-within-a-story-4.html An Intriguing Story within a Story] in What Nikki reads.

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Category:Books by Tahir Shah Category:2010 short stories