Edie Meidav

Two old friends find each other while a father awaits his end on Death Row.

Bumbling westerner goes to 1930s Ceylon to save the natives. Some historical link to Henry Steel Olcott, one of the West's redactors of Buddhism.

An exploration of the mind of evil. "He is quite a creation indeed, this aging anti-Quixote with his residual windmills to tilt at." -- Thomas Kenneally, The Washington Post

An epic, intimate novel in which a blundering westerner goes east. "Complex, imaginative."