The Book of Rain The Cavalier introduces English-language readers to a

introduces English-language readers to a writer whose daring prose “conjures up a magical and colorful universe in which desire and pain are interlinked

The manuscript is set in diverse places—Punjab

Containing single

To read this book is to glimpse the ecstasy you always suspected lay at the heart of every rapturous horror

and Cecil Taylor

The Book of Rain The Cavalier introduces English-language readers to aAb Zayd al Anr The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud. So begins translator David Larsens introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather words, by early Arabic linguist Ab Zayd al Anr. In Larsens translation, Ab Zayds lexicography of rain is simultaneously an academic, archival, and poetic pursuit. After the fashion of Larsens award winning translation of Names of the Lion, these rich, extensive lists