Synopsis
A unique spiritual travelogue in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence recalls the author's journey across two continents in 1986 in a Mercedes in search of a gravestone for his friend Mahmoud Rauf.
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About the Authors
Rafi Zabor was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked and recorded as a jazz drummer and written about music for Musician, Playboy, and the Village Voice, and about dervishes in Istanbul for Harper's. His novel, The Bear Comes Home, won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998 and was voted one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books of the Year. He still lives in Brooklyn, where he is finishing the second volume of I, Wabenzi.
Rafi Zabor was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked and recorded as a jazz drummer and written about music forMusician, Playboy, and the Village Voice, and about dervishes in Istanbul for Harper's. His novel,The Bear Comes Home, won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998 and was voted one of theLos Angeles Times's Best Books of the Year. He still lives in Brooklyn, where he is finishing the second volume ofI, Wabenzi.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Royal octavo, hardcover, VG in VG white pictorial dj. First Edition, First Printing. 472 pp. Some time ago Rafi Zabor sat down to write a brief narrative of the year 1986. That was the year he set out across two continents in a used Mercedes--"Wabenzi" is the Swahili word for a member of the Mercedes-owning class--to buy a grave stone for his friend Mahmoud Rauf and to outrun the shadow of his own parents' recent death. Book. Seller Inventory # 72447