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001 2015021673
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005 20160101080528.0
008 150728s2015 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015021673
020 $a9781250071286 (paperback)
020 $z9781250071309 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aPS3557.O3644$bP64 2015
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084 $aFIC019000$aFIC039000$aFIC000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aGolding, Michael.
245 12 $aA poet of the invisible world :$ba novel /$cMichael Golding.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c2015.
300 $a324 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A Poet of the Invisible World is the story of a boy born in thirteenth-century Persia with four ears instead of two. Orphaned as an infant, he's taken into a Sufi order, where he meets an assortment of dervishes and is placed upon a path towards spiritual awakening. He studies the Koran and the principles of Sufism. He meets his first love, a handsome youth named Vishpar. When marauders attack the lodge, however, he's swept off to a series of grueling adventures and an assortment of shifting roles: tea boy in the court of a Spanish sultan, shepherd on a barren farm in the mountains, sybarite in a bustling city on the north coast of Africa. As he stumbles from one painful experience to the next, he grows into manhood. And when fate leads him to a Sufi order perched high in the mountains, he's ready to begin the true work of spiritual development. Now the tests are more subtle: the animosity of a fellow Sufi who has dogged him since childhood, a love affair with an acolyte who's been brought under his wing. But each trial shatters another obstacle within--and leads him on toward transcendence. - A beautiful gift package, with french flaps and deckle edge - For readers of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and Paolo Coelho"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aOrphans$vFiction
650 0 $aSufis$vFiction.
651 0 $aIran$xHistory$y1256-1500$vFiction.
655 0 $aReligious fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/286/9781250071286/image/lgcover.9781250071286.jpg