Broken Wings
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Broken Wings
by Authors:
Kahlil Gibran , Juan R.I. Cole , Robin A. Waterfield
Released: November, 1998
ISBN: 0140195513
Paperback
Sales Rank: 78,970
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Customer Review #1:
Love and pure love.
In the Broken Wings, Gibran touches a variety of subjects like love, plight of women, hypocracy of self serving religious heads, false values on which human socities are built, and true prayer and sacrifice. And all is told in very few majestically beautiful words without malice to any one.
"Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that laws of humanity do not alter its course."
" Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and ..........is created in a moment."
Gibran says of the plight of the women by describing them as
" the bird with broken wings in a cage."
Of heads of religions, Gibran says, "Thus the Christian Bishop and the Moslem imam and the Brahman priest are like sea reptiles who clutch their prey with many tentacles and suck their blood with numerous mouths." How true are these words!
Gibran tells how "in some countries, the parents wealth is a source of misery for the children."
Yet the woman in the story, although falling in the abyss of miseries, prays "help me, my Lord, to be strong in this deadly struggle and assist me to be truthful and virtuous until death. Thy will be done, oh Lord God."
And finally she sacrifices her own life fot he sake of her beloved thus bringing glory to "sacrifice."
Tears rolled down my cheeks while reading the tragic end of the story. But I felt these tears have cleansed my spirit.
The reading of The Broken Wings is a must for any one who wants to experience a tearful smile or a sorrowful joy or miseries for a true prayer.
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Customer Review #2:
Broken wings need to be filmed as it is a great love story.
Unlike other love stories ever written, i think Gibrans Broken Wings embraced the whole idea of unconditional love. The story is awfully rich in spiritual matters and vivid description of the authority of churchs official early this century in Lebanon. Thus, i hope some good director or producer will take Gibrans work and make a film. I will be the first person to watch it and i prefer director Franco Zefferli to direct it. So this is one of the best love story ive ever read.
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Customer Review #3:
Exquisite...
More than a heart rending love story with a tragic ending, this book, one of Gibrans lesser known works, is a compelling commentary on the condition of women in the Middle Eastern societies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What I like most about Gibrans work is his beautiful prose replete with evocative imagery; that quality is displayed extravagantly in this novel. Dont pass this one up if you admire Gibran! :-)
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