A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A - River to the Eas

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, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him. This novel by International Booker Prize winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai - perhaps his most serene and poetic work - describes a search for the unobtainable and the riches to be discovered along the way. Despite difficulties in finding the garden, the reader is closely introduced to the construction processes of the monastery as well as the geological and biological processes of the surrounding area, making this an unforgettable meditation on nature, life, history, and being.

Product details

• Authors: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Krasznahorkai Laszlo, LASZLO KRASNAHORKHAI
• Assisted by: Ottilie Mulzet (Translation), Mulzet Ottilie (Translation)
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2023
• EAN: 9781800814585
• ISBN: 978-1-80081-458-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 218 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Man Booker International Winner; Hungary; Hungarian fiction; translated fiction; modernism; Budapest; communism; literary fiction; contemporary master; Nobel prize winner 2025; literature nobel prize