THE GARDEN OF THE PROPHET

Penguin Audio, UK, 1996.  ISBN 0-14-086282-X.  1 audio cassette with an approx. playing time of 1 hour, still in manufacturer’s shrink wrap; original price sticker on rear.  Read by Nadim Sawalha.  ‘First published posthumously in 1933, this is the book Gibran was working on in the years leading up to his untimely death.  The earlier volume had closed with Almustafa setting sail for his homeland; here we find him back on his native isle.  Overcome by “the sadness of memory” he retires to his family burial ground, but after some weeks of solitude there he opens the gate, and once more offers a crop of inspirational answers to his companions’ entreaties.’ (from rear case)