These nine souls-different races, stations, religions and backgrounds-gravitate, unbeknownst to them, towards a single, primal point. The Thief, the Bride, the Chieftain, the Moneychanger, the Slave, the Pilgrim, the Priest, the Dervish, and the Corpse. A contemporary Canterbury Tales, each story resonates with joy, sorrow, life, death, and the ever changing face of the Divine. Nine characters encounter each other and the contents of mysterious saddlebag on Pilgrimage to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. Get the latest updates about Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. He did not understand.”įirst published in 2001, The Saddlebag by Iranian-British author Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is one story that is nine stories, nine stories that are one story. A beautifully told, transcendent tale of truth, salvation, and the power of desire. It told him that the primal point was the beginning and the end the centre and the circumference of the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them. They told him the path is straight and the way is narrow even while it is more spacious than the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them. The words ran into one another, equivocal. And yet it seemed to be one enigmatic dot. It was written as if at a great speed, without the dots. The noonday sun was beating down on the page and it blazed before him, blinding him momentarily. “The Uigur’s eyes were bright and keen, but he had difficulty reading the fine script on that delicate paper.
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