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In the tradition of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse comes a new spiritual novel that is a stunning feat of storytelling and imagination.
A Poet of the Invisible World follows a boy named Nouri, born in 13th-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 toward spiritual awakening. As he stumbles from one painful experience to the next, he grows into manhood. Each trial he endures shatters another obstacle within - and leads Nouri on toward transcendence.
- Sales Rank: #85235 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-11-24
- Released on: 2015-11-24
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 576 minutes
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Fabulous Tale
By Roger Brunyate
Celestial light,
Shine inward… that I may see and tell
Of things invisible to mortal sight.
— John Milton
No matter how tired they were from the week's labor, no matter
how dull from too much baghali polo the night before, no
matter how eager to praise God or make tea or milk the cow,
there was no one in the tiny village of Al-Kashir who was not
stunned the news that early that morning, in the slant-roofed
shed behind the mud-walled house, Maleeh al-Morad had given
birth to a bright-faced, screaming boy with two sets of ears.
— Michael Golding
Golding's epigraph and his opening sentence. Like most epigraphs, the first is almost a riddle whose full meaning will appear only after you have finished the book. But I was immediately captivated by the fabulous tone of the opening sentence, like a fairy story set in some distant time and place, anchored by mundane details such as making the tea and milking the cow, but containing already that one piece of magic: the boy with four ears. I admit that in another state of mind I might have dismissed the writing as trivial fantasy, but on this occasion I was inspired to read on. And on, and on. For I quickly realized that Michael Golding was an author I could trust to lead me anywhere. This is one of those books that will leave you in suspense at the end of one chapter, only to resolve it by a stroke of grace at the start of the next. I don't mean that every problem has a happy outcome, although this was mostly the case at the beginning, but that even suffering and setbacks can lead eventually to greater wisdom.
For this is the story of a spiritual journey. By a miraculous accident, the baby Nouri Ahmad Mohammad ibn Mahsoud al-Morad (let's just say Nouri) literally falls into the hands of the porter of an order of dervishes, or Sufi monks. The porter, Habbib, tries to keep the baby secret, but eventually his presence is discovered, and the boy becomes a favorite of the brothers and grows up at the lodge. The leader of the order, Sheikh Bailiri, senses that Nouri is especially blessed by Allah and begins to train him in the Sufi discipline. He also notes the boy's remarkable fluency with words, and sets him on his path as a poet.
But these are troubled times (I am assuming sometime in the Middle Ages) and the idyll cannot last. When the lodge is raided by a band of marauders, Nouri is kidnapped and lands in a Sultan's court, where his gifts are again discovered but now shine in a different light. This is only the first of Nouri's many translocations during the course of the novel. He will find himself in Andalusia, in North Africa, on the Hajj to Mecca, and once more back in the village of his birth. Not all of these will be times of enlightenment or prosperity; there are periods when he will lose himself almost completely. But what held it together was the sense that everything was part of a journey to God: the jacket compares A POET to Hermann Hesse's SIDDHARTHA, and I can see what it means. But what am I doing, as a former Christian turned atheist, finding fascination in a search for God, especially in an Islamic context so removed from my own? Perhaps it is the radiant simplicity of Golding's prose. Perhaps the fact that the religion as he paints it has nothing to do with restriction and exclusion, only personal enlightenment. Perhaps the Sufi teaching that to know God one must first know oneself. This is a spiritual quest that even humanists can embrace.
Nouri will encounter many obstacles in his journey. Some are outside himself, such as the marauding kidnappers and a dark monk who establishes himself as his personal nemesis. But most are inside him, facts of his nature. One of these is his sexuality, for Nouri discovers that his deepest love is for men. In every important way, Golding treats gay love as something beautiful, even holy, but he also realizes that it can be something difficult to accept and lead to self-doubt and persecution.
Nouri's other inner obstacle is oddly enough his poetry, which emerges surely as a divine gift but which can also get in the way, as yet another veil between him and God. There is a wonderful episode early in the novel when Nouri must choose between his career as a poet and his religious studies; I felt it especially acutely as an artist myself. This particular dilemma is eventually decided for him in yet another act of violence that once more sets Nouri wandering around the Mediterranean. There will be periods in his life when Nouri does not write at all, others in which he is prolific. We never see his poems, but we do believe their quality. And, whether he writes or not, we never cease to believe that Nouri has the vision of a poet, and that it is as a poet he will come to see God. Only after reaching the end do I see the point of the word "inward" in the Milton epigraph:
Celestial light,
Shine inward… that I may see and tell
Of things invisible to mortal sight.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Loved this book
By Steve W
I loved this book! The author paints such vivid pictures, in such beautiful language, that I felt like I was part of Nouri’s journey. Not only did I envision the colorful locations, but I could practically taste the many foods mentioned (and described in a delightful food glossary). Woven into the seemingly serious subjects of spiritual and sexual awakening is a surprising streak of humor that had me laughing out loud here and there. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and hope you do too!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The visible world gives him hell
By Ralphe Wiggins
This is the story of a disabled (he has an extra set of ears) man whose spiritual life is a reaction to various people's mostly negative reactions to him. The way he reacts to the buffeting is fascinating and heart warming. Throughout his life, his awkward physical condition constantly leads to crises to which he must react without warning of their approach. This is a well-structured ode to being different.
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