A Mountain To The North A Lake To The South Paths To The West A River To The East Lszl Krasznahorkai by László Krasznahorkai 9780811234481, 0811234487 instant download after payment.

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space & time & 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 able to touch its existence.” 

This exquisitely beautiful novel by National Book Award–winner László Krasznahorkai—perhaps his most serene & poetic work—describes a search for the unobtainable & the riches to be discovered along the way. Despite the difficulties in finding the garden, the reader is closely introduced to the construction processes of the monastery (described in poetic detail) as well as the geological & biological processes of the surrounding area (the underground layers revealed beneath a bed of moss, the travels of cypress-tree seeds on the wind, feral foxes & stray dogs meandering outside the monastery’s walls), making this an unforgettable meditation on nature, life, history, & being.

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László Krasznahorkai, an innovative Hungarian writer, was announced as the sixth Man Booker International Prize winner in 2015. Krasznahorkai chose to split the prize between two translators; George Szirtes (who translated Satantango & The Melancholy of Resistance) & Ottilie Mulzet (who translated Seiobo There Below). Krasznahorkai is known for critically difficult & demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian & bleak melancholic themes.