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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
  • 1256 - 1500
  • Orphans > Fiction
  • Sufis > Fiction
  • FICTION / Literary
  • Orphans
  • Sufis
  • Iran > History > 1256-1500 > Fiction
  • Iran
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