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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 037541505X
ISBN-13: 9780375415050
Jan 2003
Publisher: Random House Inc
353 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
John Macmillan, an English graduate student researching Sufi mysticism, is looking for some rare manuscripts when he meets and falls for Camilla Jensen, giving up his quest--and, in fact, everything--for the mysterious woman he loves. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
| Size | | Length: | 353 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.5 oz |
Industry Reviews
"A compelling scholarly mystery gives way to a steamy modern-day Persian romance."
Kirkus Reviews (11/15/2002)
"Iyer's knowledge of Sufism equips him well to unsettle commonplace prejudices about Islam. With admirable tact and subtlety, and through some intriguing Iranian characters, he discloses the original meaning of 'jihad' and reveals Ayatollah Khomeini as the author of delirious love poetry. But the clash of values that Iyer invokes is really a clash of unexamined abstractions; it has become an intellectually glamorous way of not talking about messier and deeper conflicts of a political and economic nature."
New York Times Book Review - Pankaj Mishra (02/09/2003)
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