The Broken Wings
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In the sun-drenched streets of turn-of-the-century Beirut, a young man falls into a consuming, forbidden love — one that society, tradition, and the ambitions of a powerful bishop conspire to destroy. The Broken Wings, one of Kahlil Gibran's most deeply personal works, chronicles the anguished romance between the narrator and Selma Karamy, a woman of rare beauty and spiritual grace who is ultimately sacrificed on the altar of social convention and patriarchal greed. Written originally in Arabic and rendered into English by Anthony R. Ferris, this slender yet devastating novella pulsates with the lyrical intensity and philosophical longing that defines Gibran's singular literary voice. Blending the confessional intimacy of autobiography with the soaring cadences of prose poetry, the work stands as both a lament for lost love and a searing indictment of a society that prizes power over the human heart. Gibran — the Lebanese-American mystic whose later masterwork The Prophet would captivate millions — illustrates here, in raw and unguarded terms, the collision between spiritual yearning and earthly oppression. Suffused with imagery of nature, fate, and transcendence, The Broken Wings leaves the reader to wonder: what becomes of a soul whose wings are clipped before it ever truly learns to fly?
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Format: Hardback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In the sun-drenched streets of turn-of-the-century Beirut, a young man falls into a consuming, forbidden love — one that society, tradition, and the ambitions of a powerful bishop conspire to destroy. The Broken Wings, one of Kahlil Gibran's most deeply personal works, chronicles the anguished romance between the narrator and Selma Karamy, a woman of rare beauty and spiritual grace who is ultimately sacrificed on the altar of social convention and patriarchal greed. Written originally in Arabic and rendered into English by Anthony R. Ferris, this slender yet devastating novella pulsates with the lyrical intensity and philosophical longing that defines Gibran's singular literary voice. Blending the confessional intimacy of autobiography with the soaring cadences of prose poetry, the work stands as both a lament for lost love and a searing indictment of a society that prizes power over the human heart. Gibran — the Lebanese-American mystic whose later masterwork The Prophet would captivate millions — illustrates here, in raw and unguarded terms, the collision between spiritual yearning and earthly oppression. Suffused with imagery of nature, fate, and transcendence, The Broken Wings leaves the reader to wonder: what becomes of a soul whose wings are clipped before it ever truly learns to fly?