{"product_id":"9781250071286","title":"Poet of the Invisible World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of Hermann Hesse’s \u003ci\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/i\u003e comes a new spiritual novel that is a stunning feat of storytelling and imagination.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Poet of the Invisible World \u003c\/i\u003efollows Nouri, 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 embarks on a path toward spiritual awakening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Nouri will find himself in the sumptuous court of a sultan, a barren farm in the hills of Spain, a bustling city on the north coast of Africa, and a monastery perched high in the mountains. He will fall in love—and encounter an adversary who will try to destroy that love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Nouri stumbles from one experience to the next, he grows into manhood. Each trial he endures will shatter another obstacle within—and lead him toward transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Golding’s previous work has been described as “brilliant” (\u003ci\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e) and “so lavish and so colorful, it’s like a meal in the open air, laid out on brocade” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e). With this new novel, seven years in the writing, he has created a gripping tale that deals with many of life’s deepest questions.\u003ci\u003e A Poet of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Invisible World\u003c\/i\u003e will astonish readers as it awakens them to the poetry inside themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025761648880,"sku":"9781250071286","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250071286_p0.jpg?v=1763763113","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250071286","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}