Book of Strangers A Novel

Name: Book of Strangers A Novel
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ISBN: 9780887069918

ISBN-10: 0887069916

ISBN-13: 9780887069918

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ian Dallas

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Sometime in the future the head librarian at a great center of learning suddenly disappears, leaving behind a journal that describes his weariness with a world "where people teach but know nothing, where the sentences flow on endlessly but lead nowhere." His successor in the post becomes more and more intrigued by the vanished man's fate, until a series of mysterious clues lead him on a journey both inward and outward, to a world that begins where language ends. Within a matter of weeks he finds himself in the company of powerful dervishes, God-intoxicated nomads whose eyes blaze with love, and ragged beggars with the smile of the Pure One. These men, the followers of an enlightened Shaykh,…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 8/23/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English