A weed for burning

Conrad Detrez novelistically recreates his own startling spiritual and political odyssey with lyricism, wit, and pungent satire. His was a quest for moral purpose in the modern world - an elusive goal that led him halfway around the globe, from an idyllic village in Belgium to the confusion and violence of revolutionary struggle in Brazil. This is the memorably told story of political and sensual awakening, of ideals embraced and abandoned, of loves won and lost. It is the pilgrimage of a body that had suffered all blows, all caresses, all hungers, and of a soul, carried high and far, that had learned everything.