Tale of Hodja Nasreddin
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Tale of Hodja Nasreddin (translated to English as "The Beggar in the Harem: Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara") is a novel by Leonid Solovyov based on Hodja Nasreddin .
In it, a central plot element is the protagonist's efforts to rescue his beloved from the Harem of the Emir of Bukhara - an element not present in the original tales of the Middle Eastern folk hero Nasreddin, on which the novel was loosely based.
Alexei Tolstoy hailed the Tale of Hodja Nasreddin as a work of unusual talent.
The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin, contains two novels: Disturber of the Peace, or Hodja Nasreddin in Bokhara (Возмутитель спокойствия) and The Enchanted Prince (Очарованный принц). The whole novel has been translated into dozens of languages including Turkish, Persian, Hindi(दास्तान-ए-नसरुद्दीन, ISBN 81-7007-148-8) and Uzbek. Both volumes were translated into English, the first appearing in the United States as Disturber of the Peace (1940), reprinted in 1956 as The Beggar in the Harem. Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara (in England as Adventures in Bukhara). A new translation was released in 2009 under the title The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace (Translit Publishing, November 2009) . The second volume appeared in 1957 as The Enchanted Prince. The book was also translated to Hebrew and was adapated to a very successful theatre play in 1950's Israel.
