Subtitle:
The Rumi Novel
Author: RabisankarBal
Translator: Arunava Sinha
Translator: Arunava Sinha
On his way from Tangiers to China, the medieval
Moorish traveller Ibn Battuta arrives in Konya, Turkey where the legendary
dervish Rumi had lived, danced and died. More than half a century may have
passed since his death, but his poetry remains alive, inscribed in every stone
and tree and pathway. Rumi’s followers entrust Ibn Battuta with a manuscript of
his life stories to spread word of the mystic on his travels. As Battuta reads
and recites these tales, his listeners discover their own lives reflected in
these stories—fate has bound them, and perhaps you, to Rumi.
A Mirrored Life reaffirms the magical powers of storytelling,
making us find Rumi in each of our hearts.
About the Author
Rabisankar
Bal is a Bangla novelist and short-story writer, and has published over fifteen
novels, five short-story collections, one volume of poetry and one volume of
literary essays. Born in 1962, he has been writing for thirty years. His novel Dozakhnama, acclaimed by the late doyen
of Bengali literature Sunil Gangopadhyay as the finest novel of 2010, won the
West Bengal government’s Bankimchandra Smriti Puraskar.
About the Translator
Arunava Sinha translates contemporary and classic Bengali
fiction into English. He has seventeen published translations to his name.
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