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Intertwined quests of love, identity, and mysticism.
If you've ever found yourself caught between the allure of unraveling historical secrets and the whirlwind of an elusive romantic connection, "Abandon" might just resonate with you. Diving into this book is like being swept up in a journey that dances between academic pursuit and personal discovery. It's a heady mix of love and intellectual intrigue, set against a backdrop of cultural confluence.
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ISBN: 9781400030859
Authors:
Pico Iyer
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Publication: 2004-04-13
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.19
(rated by 375 readers)
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From the national bestselling author of The Half-Known Life comes an intoxicating novel that's at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story—the love in question being at once sacred and profane. John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally absorbing quests. The first is for a mysterious Rumi manuscript that may have been smuggled out of Iran; the second for the elusive Camilla Jensen, who continually offers herself to him only to repeatedly slip from his grasp. Are these quests somehow related? And can Macmillan give himself over to them without losing his career and identity? Moving deftly from California academia to the mosques of Iran, Abandon is a magic carpet-ride of a book.
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Intertwined quests of love, identity, and mysticism.
If you've ever found yourself caught between the allure of unraveling historical secrets and the whirlwind of an elusive romantic connection, "Abandon" might just resonate with you. Diving into this book is like being swept up in a journey that dances between academic pursuit and personal discovery. It's a heady mix of love and intellectual intrigue, set against a backdrop of cultural confluence.
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