After twelve years of exile in the city of Orphalese, the sage Almustafa at last sees the ship that is to take him back to the island of his birth. Before he leaves, the people ask him to speak to them of love, children, work, joy and sorrow, and death.
Written by the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, these twenty-six short discourses in poetic prose have been read for a century, at weddings and funerals alike, all over the world.
Its very short texts can be read one by one, at your own pace, in the language you are learning.
