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Pico Iyer’s intoxicating new book is at once a fashionable intelligent thriller and a heart-quickening love story—the love under consideration being at once holy and profane.John Macmillan, a typically reticent Englishman who has migrated to California to review the verses of the Sufi mystic Rumi, suddenly becomes involved with two similarly absorbing missions. The very first is for a mystical Rumi manuscript that'll have now been smuggled out-of Iran; the 2nd for the evasive Camilla Jensen, who constantly gives himself to him simply to repeatedly fall from his grasp. Are these missions somehow connected? Without dropping his identification and job and may Macmillan offer herself to them?Moving deftly from Florida academia for the mosques of Iran, full of insights in to the thoughts of the current West and Islam, Abandon is just a magic carpet-ride of the book.