num_pages: 160
description: The narrator, who, while confined to a hospital bed, is persecuted by the medical profession, identifies with St. John of the Cross, who, 400 years earlier, fused Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs together in his writings
language: English
title: The Virtues of the Solitary Bird
titlecomplete: The Virtues of the Solitary Bird
genres: Spain, Fiction, Spanish Literature
ratings_count: 65
publisher: Serpent's Tail