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Description

Pico 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. John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi,... read more

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First Sentence

He reached for his alarm clock in the dark, and then realized that the sound was coming from somewhere else.

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  1. Pico Iyer (Author)
 

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