This Flawless Place Between: A Novel

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For those who loved The Alchemist, Siddhartha, and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, This Flawless Place Between is a mesmerizing and uplifting story about death and dying. Interweaving themes from The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Portier takes us to Tibet and the scene of a motorcycle accident. Anne’s life is over, but with the help of a stranger her spirit begins a cathartic voyage that carries her back through the traumas and ecstasies of her life.

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Overview

For those who loved The Alchemist, Siddhartha, and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, This Flawless Place Between is a mesmerizing and uplifting story about death and dying. Interweaving themes from The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Portier takes us to Tibet and the scene of a motorcycle accident. Anne’s life is over, but with the help of a stranger her spirit begins a cathartic voyage that carries her back through the traumas and ecstasies of her life.

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Editorial Reviews

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“Extraordinary and compelling.”
New Internationalist

“This inspiring novel will quench anyone’s thirst for knowledge and spirituality."
Psychologies Magazine

"Provocative, emotional, and strangely comforting. Highly recommended."
Publishers Weekly

"Engagingly beautiful" Bookbag

Publishers Weekly
Portier, a filmmaker and writer, uses fiction to recast The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text sacred to Tibetan Buddhists that describes what happens at and after death. Husband and wife Evan and Anne are traveling on a motorcycle on a remote road in Tibet when an accident occurs. From there the two takes different journeys. Tibetans call the stages of consciousness at and after death bardo. What Portier lacks in storytelling skills— the narrative is a simplistic one—he makes up for with his imaginative construction of a soul’s slow departure from life as the body begins to break down and the unique person looks back and slowly moves on to another existence. It’s provocative, emotional, and strangely comforting. Highly recommended for those who dislike a treacly view of the afterlife and also for skeptics who think this is all there is. (May)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781851689590
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publication date: 3/26/2013
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 1,307,072
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author


Bruno Portier is a writer, photographer, and documentary maker. He traveled around Asia for 12 years before undertaking a PhD in social anthropology and writing this, his first novel.
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