Mevlud's Way is an enchanting journey in the style of magical realism where the imagination and the outside world are recognized by the eye of the inner heart. It is a journey that appears on the outside with the background of its main character arriving from a village on top of a mountain in southern Italy to the metropolitan environment of New York City. But, as all larger than life characters are wont to do the main character, Mevlud, turns New York into the simple environment of a village and his inner life becomes the macrocosm that is served by this city. As he traverses its landscape, he moves with and through characters that point to a life and a love that transcends mundane life as sparked by the divine. Mevlud's Way will appeal to those fellow travelers who cross the boundaries of race, culture, blood-ties and religions and merge in a place somewhere over the horizon that can be seen only by the inner eye of those who are all too human - a true human being as someone who submits to a larger enterprise; a place that contains all and yet nothing of what the eyes can see. Those inclined towards Sufism, Buddhism, mysticism, and in general, seekers of a path to an understanding leading out of or away from the generally accepted ideas of what is what will find this novel as a service to this expression of wanting to find a life full of love and meaning that can last a lifetime and make its way into eternity.
About the Author: MAURO MEVLUD MARTINO was born in Calabria, southern Italy on March 29th, 1953. His novels have also been translated into Turkish from his original English work. One of his novels, JOURNEY BACK HOME has also been translated and published in Arabic. A year after birth, he arrived in Toronto, Canada. It was there that he was educated, and it was there that he learned to live inside different cultures that created a diverse world in his mind. A world that ultimately nourished itself into a place without borders. A world that found its form in different hues and approaches to life but where he came to believe originated from the SAME SOURCE. Mr. Martino also involves himself in film work, and has acted in Turkish film and television, and has attended many important film festivals including Cannes and Berlin as a representative of Turkish film. He has been a member of the jury for the Alexandria Film Festival of Egypt, and the Muslim Film Festival of Kazan, Russia and a special guest of the Kolkota Film Festival of India. Oftentimes, culture, race, color, religion and blood-ties are sources of wonderful nourishment and add to the beauty of the diversity of living. However, Martino seeks to place the SAME SOURCE ahead of all in order that his journey leaves no loose ends. His work is an invitation to all of those who are looking for much more than what appears on the outside.