From the winner of the EBRD Literature Prize, East meets West in a modern Sufi parable about the search for truth. Learned, strange and charming. The Guardian. In the latest thrilling multistranded epic from the awardwinning author of The Devils Dance, an Uzbek writer in exile follows in the footsteps of the medieval polymath Avicenna, who shaped Islamic thought and science for centuries. Waking from a portentous dream, Uzbek writer Sheikhov is convinced that Avicenna still lives. Condemned to roam the world. Avicenna appears across the ages, from Ottoman Turkey to medieval Germany and Renaissance Italy. Sheikhov plies the same route, though his troubles are distinctly modern as he endures the petty humiliations of exile. Hamid Ismailov has crafted another masterpiece, combining traditional oral storytelling with contemporary global fiction to create a modern Sufi parable about the search for truth and wisdom.

Binding: Paperback;446 pages; Publisher: Tilted Axis Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 602 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 40

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