| The Book of Strangers Revised Edition Contributor(s): Dallas, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887069916 ISBN-13: 9780887069918 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1988 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 88-16114 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6" W x 9" (0.52 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, speak little, but simply to be in their company fills him with ecstasy and knowledge. |
