{"product_id":"1400030854-abandon","title":"Abandon","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePico Iyer’s intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story—the love in question being at once sacred and profane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving deftly from California academia to the mosques of Iran, filled with insights into the minds of Islam and the modern West, \u003cb\u003eAbandon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a magic carpet-ride of a book.\u003c\/p\u003e\nThe New York Times\n\u003cp\u003eIyer charts Macmillan's dilemmas and his slow journey to mystical insight with a sensitivity to mood and landscape reminiscent of that other book by a religiously inclined writer about a lonely Englishman in California: Christopher Isherwood's novel \u003ci\u003eA Single Man\u003c\/i\u003e. But it is apparent that Iyer wishes to do more than gently usher Macmillan and Camilla toward a Sufi-style redemption: the letting go of fears and certainties and the embracing of passionate love and ambiguity. — \u003ci\u003ePankaj Mishra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRomance\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eContemporary\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":46670096629950,"sku":"1400030854-4","price":20.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71Ke7EYms4L.jpg?v=1776878232","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1400030854-abandon","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}