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I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir (Aporia) by Rafi Zabor is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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.But like a boat against the current, the writer was drawn back into the past: his father's escape from the Nazis, Rafi's own Brooklyn boyhood surrounded by the fractious, Zabors and Zaborovskys, and the anguished--sometimes farcical--spiritual journey that led Zabor from Brooklyn to Turkey by way of Coltrane, the thirteenth-century mystic Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, the McGovern campaign, Gurdjieff, a shoe salesman named Gogol, and the cataclysmic months Zabor spent studying (and whirling) amid a band of Sufis in rural England. The result--the first of a projected four volumes--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. Straight from the unchartered territory between Zen and the A
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rafi Zabor
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780865475830
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, History