A Poet of the Invisible World is the story of a boy born in
thirteenth-century Persia with four ears instead of two. Orphaned
as an infant, he's taken into a Sufi order, where he meets an
assortment of dervishes and is placed upon a path towards spiritual
awakening. He studies the Koran and the principles of Sufism. He
meets his first love, a handsome youth named Vishpar. When
marauders attack the lodge, however, he's swept off to a series of
gruelling adventures and an assortment of shifting roles: tea boy
in the court of a Spanish sultan, shepherd on a barren farm in the
mountains, sybarite in a bustling city on the north coast of
Africa. As he stumbles from one painful experience to the next, he
grows into manhood. And when fate leads him to a Sufi order perched
high in the mountains, he's ready to begin the true work of
spiritual development. Now the tests are more subtle: the animosity
of a fellow Sufi who has dogged him since childhood, a love affair
with an acolyte who's been brought under his wing. But each trial
shatters another obstacle within-and leads him on toward
transcendence.
General
Imprint: |
Picador USA
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2015 |
Authors: |
Michael Golding
|
Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
324 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-250-07128-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
|
LSN: |
1-250-07128-3 |
Barcode: |
9781250071286 |
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