![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, the documents have become very valuable, offered for sale in whispers at hidden bookstores, and coveted by rich collectors. He is the best-selling poet in America, “displacing … the Dalai Lama as the reigning king of greeting cards”. Now Rumi has become a mass media phenomenon, made trendy by pop culture icons like Madonna and Deepak Chopra. ![]() The Iranian diaspora of 1979, after the “second revolution,” resulted in manuscripts being spirited away from their home country to places as varied as Westwood and Jaipur. All the while, mysterious hints about newly unearthed poems bubble up in conversations, in phone calls and in books left as gifts. His hunt for the Shiraz manuscript, a famous lost work, sends him from Damascus to Seville and from Paris to Isfahan. Macmillan’s thesis centers on Persian poetry, specifically on the work of the Sufi poet Rumi. Here, the story centers on John Macmillan, an English graduate student at a university in Santa Barbara. ![]() His latest work, Abandon, returns to familiar terrain, exploring the interstices between cultures. His next piece of fiction, Cuba and the Night, echoed the joyous music of that country in vibrantly narrating the course of a love affair between the English protagonist and his island girlfriend. In Pico Iyer’s first novel, The Lady and the Monk, he dealt with a delicate love affair between a Zen initiate and a Japanese housewife, in prose as delicately shaded as a haiku.
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