The Teacher

<p>From Joseph Fasano bestselling author of <em>The Magic Words</em> comes a timeless story of a father a son and the power of language to awaken the world.</p><p></p><p><em>The Teacher</em> follows Aldo a craftsman and his eleven-year-old son Solé as they journey across deserts mountains and wondrous cities toward the besieged city of Asha. Along the way Aldo shares his Six Great Lessons: Love Grief Power Mistakes Hope and Courage. These lessons become a guide for Solé as he learns what it means to live with compassion in a world shaped by fear.</p><p></p><p>What begins as a journey to deliver a gift becomes something far more profound. Solé comes to understand that language not violence holds the greatest power of all.</p><p>Part fable and part meditation <em>The Teacher</em> stands alongside <em>The Alchemist</em> <em>Invisible Cities</em> and <em>Einstein's Dreams</em>. Written in Fasano's spare and luminous prose it is a book to keep close to give as a gift and to return to again and again.</p><p></p><p><em>The Teacher</em> is a work for this moment and for all time. It reminds us that even in the face of darkness we still have the power to speak.</p>