Fiction
January 2021
A Man in an Eternal Exile
by Nader Ebrahimi
A Man in an Eternal Exile is a mystic novel that has poetic and musical lines. It narrates the life of Molla Sadra Shirazi, a great mystic, and events in his life from his birth to death. This book has 16 chapters; in some of the chapters like ‘Substantial Movement’ and ‘the Precedence of Existence over Essence,’ his thoughts on Shia Wisdom and Philosophy are narrated in long dialogues. The beginning of the novel; examines the hardship of exile, and the following chapters are flashbacks to his earlier life. The fluent and poetic style of the prose has made this novel a considerable one.
