{"product_id":"2940166675682","title":"Nasrudin in the Land of Fools","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fourth book of Nasrudin tales from the acclaimed storyteller, Tahir Shah, concerns the trials and tribulations of the inimitable wise fool's life in the Land of Fools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome Nasrudin stories are overtly hilarious, while others are downright odd, yet all of them get the listener's brain working in new ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a thousand years, stories such as these have been relied upon - from Morocco in the west to China in the east - to impart wisdom, while challenging conventional thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGENIUS MACHINE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNasrudin invented a device to turn fools into geniuses, and geniuses into fools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs word of the machine spread, Foolslanders hurried to the capital and stood in line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaying their money, some of the dimmest fools in existence became geniuses in the blink of an eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, one at a time, the geniuses queued up again to be turned back into fools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNasrudin asked one of them why he wanted to be turned back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I always wanted to be a genius,' he said, 'but now I have experienced it, I realize it's so much less exhausting to go through life as a fool.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretum Mundi Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46464975110385,"sku":"2940166675682","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940166675682_p0.jpg?v=1765764449","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940166675682","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}