EAN: 9780811234474

A MOUNTAIN TO THE NORTH A LAKE TO THE SOUTH PAT...

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old
monastery in Kyoto. The monastery  too  is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance  with
barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long
captivated him: "he continually saw the garden in his mind's eye without being able to touch
its existence."  This exquisitely beautiful novel by National Book Award-winner László
Krasznahorkai-perhaps his most serene and poetic work-describes a search for the unobtainable
and the riches to be discovered along the way. Despite the difficulties in finding the garden 
the reader is closely introduced to the construction processes of the monastery (described in
poetic detail) as well as the geological and biological processes of the surrounding area (the
underground layers revealed beneath a bed of moss  the travels of cypress-tree seeds on the
wind  feral foxes and stray dogs meandering outside the monastery's walls)  making this an
unforgettable meditation on nature  life  history  and being.

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