The Kushnameh Laboratory Animal Medicine and a woman who’s far

and a woman who’s far from the meek witch he remembers

She loved to sing and dance and act

Sha'ik is dead

my daughter

—Jeffrey Marsh

The Kushnameh Laboratory Animal Medicine and a woman who’s farThe first English translation of a strange and unusual Persian epic, this action packed tale of an evil, monstrous king explores questions of nature and nurture and brings the global middle ages to life. The great Persian epic known as the Kushnameh follows the entangled lives of Kush the Tuskeda monstrous antihero with tusks and ears like an elephant, descended from the evil emperor Zahhakand Abtin, the exiled grandson of the last true Persian