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WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE
A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery
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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: In the fiction of László Krasznahorkai, man struggles to achieve infinity only to find madness as his consolation prize. In A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East, the pretty grandson of a prince seeks a mythical garden that haunts his every waking moment. His search leads him through a labyrinthine and seemingly abandoned monastery, whose astonishing beauty and inevitable decay the author painstakingly details.--Alex Watkins "Vulture"