A POET OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD

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 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 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. From the author of SIMPLE PRAYERS. MICHAEL GOLDING was born in Philadelphia and educated at Duke, Oxford, and the University of California at Irvine, where he received the Gellman Founder’s Award. He began his career as an actor, appearing in numerous Off-Broadway shows and playing Romeo for a Joseph Papp production of ROMEO AND JULIET. His first novel, SIMPLE PRAYERS, was published in 1994. A national bestseller, it has been translated into nine foreign languages and Martin Scorcese is executive producing the film version. BENJAMIN’S GIFT, his second novel, was published in 2000. Michael has lived in New York, Paris, Venice, London, Amsterdam, and Moscow and currently resides in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California. He teaches writing and literature at Yuba College, and has just completed his third novel, A POET OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD.