A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East

1 About this book

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and 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 and poetic work— describes a search for the unobtainable and the riches to be discovered along the way.

Good for readers who want: literary fiction, a short novel, and a short read.

• Literary fiction
• 21st Century
• Novella