Description: SeioboNa Japanese goddessNhas a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every 3,000 years: its fruit brings immortality. Over several scenes of ordinary life around the world--structured by the Fibonacci sequence--Seiobo hovers, watching it all in the latest novel from Othe contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypseO (Susan Sontag).
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WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE
The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary.
Review Quotes: When I first read László Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below, I thought I had discovered a sutra of a cult I had been unconsciously following for most of my life, a cult I had dimly perceived through museums and libraries but that now I could see was mystically systematised. It had no name, as the white heron we meet stalking fish in the Kamo river in Kyoto has no name, but is 'the artist who is no more, who is invisible, who is needed by no one'. Each chapter centres on an artwork or its creator, its making or its reception, ranging from the Shang Dynasty to the present day, across the Eurasian continent from Japan to Spain. There are seventeen chapters, each consisting (mostly) of a single sprawling sentence, and numbered according to the Fibonacci sequence, 1 to 2584, which gives the effect of travelling light years in the course of reading.--Ange Mlinko "London Review of Books"