A poet of the invisible world : a novel / Michael Golding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golding, Michael.

Series:

Picador original

A Picador original

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orphans--Fiction.

Orphans.

History.

Sufis.

Iran.

Sufis--Fiction.

Iran--History--1256-1500--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Religious fiction.

History.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

324 pages ; 21 cm.

regular print

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2015.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, Winner, 2016

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

9781250071286

1250071283

1250071305

9781250071309

OCLC:

915159404

Publisher Number:

99964793035