The Friend of the DesertBy: Pablo d'Ors Series: Thich Nhat Hanh Classics Existential and curiously hypnotic, Pablo d'Ors evokes the sharp stylized prose of Bolao, Bernhard, and DeLillo in this strange tale of one man's repeated forays into the desert, and the ultimate silence it contains. "Thanks to the back cover of a book I knew that there lived in Brno a man who had dedicated a good portion of his life to traveling through many of the world's deserts." So begins Pavel's