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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Seiobo There Below

Seiobo There Below

Mulzet, Ottilie
Krasznahorkai, László

Paperback

Series: Ndp; 1280

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0811219674
ISBN13: 9780811219679
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Sep 24 2013
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: Best Translated Book Award
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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