I, WABENZI
A memoir that reads like a cross between Bernard Malamud, Tristram Shandy, and Pirig’s ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE, with a dose of Castaneda and Kerouac thrown in.

In 1986, the author bought a large, olive-green 1978 Mercedes Benz 280SE in Holland and traveled through Europe and Turkey, where he hung out with the Sufis and whirling dervishes, in part, outrunning the shadow of his parents' recent deaths but also looking for a gravestone for his beloved friend Mahmoud Rauf.

But like a boat against the current, Zabor was drawn back into the past. The result is one of the most original, capacious, and vivid narratives of the last few decades, a real-life Bildungsroman dealing with an expanded range of human experience, from matters of life and death to a piece of what lies beyond them.

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux U.S.
Portobello Books U.K. & Commonwealth
Bertelsmann, Goldmann Germany