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Book:Name: [ebook pdf nsO] [buddhism] The Tree of Enlightenment - Peter Della Santina [www NorthShare tk]
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Description:Title: The Tree of Enlightenment
Author: Peter Della Santina
Language: angielski
Year: 2017
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Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Wild Dingo Press
ISBN: 9780987381309
Total pages: 402
Download from RapidGatorThe Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is really an embodiment of Iranian life in constant oscillation, struggle and play between four opposing poles: life and death; politics and religion. The sorrow residing in the depths of our joy is the product of a life between these four poles.
The novel is multi-layered; one layer is rooted to the material world while others connect to the supernatural and mystical realms. The material layer is informed by political, social and cultural events, including the events surrounding the Iranian Revolution, such as book burnings, arbitrary interrogations and arrests, and execution of people who found treasures and antiquities.
Another layer is based in the supernatural; the mythical, legendary, fantastical and mystical, which are based in popular belief in Iran. Bushasp the demon of sleep, Huma the bird of happiness, the myth of the Tree of Life, Al, Jinns, spirits, Azrael, fate-altering dreams and mystical visions and enlightenment appear throughout.
Yet another layer is linguistic. The novel is heavily influenced by the tone and language of the Iranian-Persian storytelling tradition which Westerners are familiar with in the much-loved Persian classic, One Thousand and One Nights, that immerses the reader on a journey from one story to the next.
The history of oppression in Iran is as old as the country's mysticism, and the history of its myth and imagination is older than both. It is for this reason that Iranian life today is lived between the real and the imaginary. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree overwhelms the reader with sorrow, just as sorrow has penetrated every layer of Iranian life, for only then will it be possible to understand what it means to be Iranian in the modern world.
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