Name: Book of Strangers
Author: Ian dallas
ISBN: 9780671820824

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"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."

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Author Ian dallas

Published Aug 1978

Main Genre General Fiction

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First Edition Aug 1978 Pocket ISBN13 9780671820824 ISBN10 0671820826

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Feb 1988 State University of New York Press ISBN13 9780887069918 ISBN10 0887069916

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Sep 1988 State University of New York Press ISBN13 9780887069901 ISBN10 0887069908

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Oct 2009 State University of New York Press ISBN13 9781438400341 ISBN10 1438400349

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Jun 2014 Budgate Press ISBN10 B00L77BUJK

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