The Desert Pilgrim
Subtitle: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: June 29, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780142196304
First sentence: I stand near the back of the nave of Father Sergei's church, my eyes fixed on the two nuns bowing and chanting at a lectern near the wall, their black veils drawn down to their eyebrows, the room dark and hazy from the incense rising up in the air.