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02523aam a22003978i 4500 001 9C6788F8699811E59AC1CA7ADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151003010512 008 150728s2015 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2015021673 020 $a 1250071283 : PAP 020 $a 9781250071286 : PAP 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d NjBwBT $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3557.O3644 $b P64 2015 100 1 $a Golding, Michael. 245 12 $a A poet of the invisible world : $b a novel / $c Michael Golding. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a $b St Martins Pr $c 2015 263 $a 1510 300 $a 304 p. ; 510 $a FT5I 510 $a KRO5 510 $a LI5O 510 $a LJS 510 $a XNOS 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Adult : Fiction on order 650 0 $a Orphans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sufis $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Iran $x History $y 1256-1500 $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Religious fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/286/9781250071286/image/lgcover.9781250071286.jpg 941 $a 1 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331012705.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C6788F8699811E59AC1CA7ADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search