The Bleeding of the Stone (Interlink World Fiction) - Softcover

Ibrahim Al-Koni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566564174 ISBN 13: 9781566564175

Publisher: Interlink Books, 2002

Synopsis

The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. The novel combines pertinent ecological issues with a moving portrayal of traditional desert life and of the power of the human spirit to resist.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A RICHLY-ILLUSTRATED MYSTICAL CLASSIC . NEW IN PAPERBACK. The Conference of the Birds?s a twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem. The story of the quest for a king undertaken by the birds of the world, it also describes the Sufi (or mystical Islamic) path to enlightenment. Though hugely popular and influential in the Islamic world, the poem is still relatively unfamiliar in the West. In this edition, the poet Raficq Abdulla has reinterpreted key extracts to make the wisdom of Sufism accessible to the contemporary reader. Combining amusing anecdotes and satire with passages of great mystical beauty, the poem uses the birds' journey to describe the stages of spiritual experience. This edition is richly illustrated with illuminations from Persian manuscripts.

About the Author:

Ibrahim al-Koni, Libya's leading novelist, has been called a master of magical realism and the evocation of the desert. This is his first novel to be translated into English.

About this edition

• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1566564174
• ISBN 13: 9781566564175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160