This book won the Man booker International Prize this year. It's an interesting, challenging and unusual book, of interlocking short stories about art, beauty and the sacred; such as a heron stands perched above a stream, waiting in perfect tension to catch its prey; monks pray to a statue of the Buddha, knowing every detail of its tarnished face but yearning to recognize and be enveloped by the Buddha's infinite compassion; a cynical tourist wanders in a museum in Venice, but sees a half-remembered painting of the dead Christ and is overwhelmed by pathos and emotion; a Japanese goddess descends to earth, bearing a fruit of immortality, searching for perfection.
I loved the chapter numbers - instead of the usual order, they are Fibonacci numbers.
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