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A poet of the invisible world : a novel / Michael Golding.
- Title
- A poet of the invisible world : a novel / Michael Golding.
- Author
- Golding, Michael.
- Publication
- New York : Picador, 2015.
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- Description
- 324 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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 grueling 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. - A beautiful gift package, with french flaps and deckle edge - For readers of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and Paolo Coelho"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Religious fiction.
- Fiction
- History
- Religious fiction
- Fiction.
- History.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781250071286 (paperback)
- 1250071283 (paperback)
- 9781250071309 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015021673
- OCLC
- 915159404
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library