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A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East

By László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)
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By László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)

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Poetic and reflective, László Krasznahorkai delivers a timeless meditation on life, death and the infinite possibilities through the lens of one mysterious narrator drifting through a monastery.

WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE

A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery

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 a...

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