# Scorpion Soup

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{{Infobox book
| name          =  Scorpion Soup
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| image         = Scorpion Soup.jpg
| caption       = Hardcover edition
| author        = [Tahir Shah](/source/Tahir_Shah)
| cover_artist  = Rachana Shah
| language      = English
| country       = United Kingdom
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| series        = 
| subject       = Various
| genre         = Fiction
| publisher     = Secretum Mundi Publishing
| pub_date      = June 8, 2013
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| media_type    = Print ([Hardback](/source/Hardcover))
| pages         = 136
| isbn          = 978-0-9572429-1-3
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| preceded_by   = [Timbuctoo](/source/Timbuctoo_(novel))
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'''''Scorpion Soup''''' is a limited edition collection of stories by the travel writer and novelist [Tahir Shah](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Arabian_Nights)'', Shah experiments with interwoven layers, allowing one tale to flow into the next in a technique known as the [Frame story](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Atlas_Maior)'' by the great seventeenth century Dutch cartographer [Joan Blaeu](/source/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.

==References==
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{{Tahir Shah}}

Category:Books by Tahir Shah
Category:2010 short stories

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