Abandon From: Artforum | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Artforum Inc. Spring 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Abandon, by Pico Iyer. New York: Knopf. 352 pages. $24.

Pico Iyer's new novel, Abandon, is a modern academic romance in which a thirteenth-century Sufi, or Islamic mystic, plays a central role. Rumi, the Persian-language love poet, is the subject of graduate student John Macmillan's dissertation, and while the poet's not a character per se, his work permeates the book, and, as is often the case with mysticism, Rumi is never more present than when he's absent.

Macmillan's also not entirely there. He is a perpetually off-balance Englishman who's exiled himself to Santa Barbara, California. ...

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