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Seiobo There Below

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From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

The latest novel from "the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse" (Susan Sontag)

Seiobo — a Japanese goddess — has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality. In Seiobo There Below, we see her returning again and again to mortal realms, searching for a glimpse of perfection. Beauty, in Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleetingly, the sacred — even if we are mostly unable to bear it. Seiobo shows us an ancient Buddha being restored; Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan's most sacred shrine; a heron hunting.... Over these scenes and more — structured by the Fibonacci sequence — Seiobo hovers, watching it all.

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Publisher: New Directions

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 3, 2013

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780811221191
  • File size: 590 KB
  • Release date: September 3, 2013

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780811221191
  • File size: 590 KB
  • Release date: September 3, 2013

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

The latest novel from "the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse" (Susan Sontag)

Seiobo — a Japanese goddess — has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality. In Seiobo There Below, we see her returning again and again to mortal realms, searching for a glimpse of perfection. Beauty, in Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleetingly, the sacred — even if we are mostly unable to bear it. Seiobo shows us an ancient Buddha being restored; Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan's most sacred shrine; a heron hunting.... Over these scenes and more — structured by the Fibonacci sequence — Seiobo hovers, watching it all.

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