The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in JapanIn an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawli
A deep and radically original exploration of Taoist and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist wisdom through the lens of the life and work of Tu Fu, widely considered China’s greatest classical poet.What is consciousn
The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan i
When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon
