Tue, Sep 09
|Backstory English Bookshop
The Invisible Sun: A Live Reading with Sholeh Wolpé
Time & Location
Sep 09, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Backstory English Bookshop, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, España
About the event
Join us for an evening with renowned Iranian-American poet, playwright, and translator Sholeh Wolpé, as she presents The Invisible Sun: A Guide for the Soul from Rumi’s Master, her luminous new translation of the poetry of 12th-century Sufi mystic Attar of Nishapur.
Through a live reading followed by an audience Q&A and book signing, Wolpé will bring to life the spiritual depth and lyrical beauty of Attar’s verses—offering a unique opportunity to engage with a mystical tradition that has shaped centuries of Persian literature and inspired poets from Rumi to Hafez.
You can watch a powerful example of her work in performance—an evening of dance and music set to her interpretation and translation of Attar’s The Conference of the Birds, staged at the Getty Villa Museum in Los Angeles:🎥 Watch the performance
About the Book
The Invisible Sun: A Guide for the Soul from Rumi’s Master is a luminous new translation…