{"product_id":"abandon-9781400030859","title":"Abandon","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the national bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Half-Known Life \u003c\/i\u003ecomes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving deftly from California academia to the mosques of Iran, filled with insights into the minds of Islam and the modern West, \u003ci\u003eAbandon \u003c\/i\u003eis a magic carpet-ride of a book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePICO IYER is the author of several books about the romance between cultures, including \u003cb\u003eVideo Night in Kathmandu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lady and the Monk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCuba and the Night \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand, most recently, \u003cb\u003eThe Global Soul\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in suburban Japan.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50925540835602,"sku":"9781400030859","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_481df8e5-1b72-465b-b0ae-e3f686aaa81b.jpg?v=1738977102","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/abandon-9781400030859","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}