Night Boat

ISBN-13: 9780857868541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str.

Alan Spence

Opis

Set under the skies of 18th-century Japan, a tale of fear, devotion, and the power of the spirit against all odds My childhood name was Iwajiro, and I was eight years old when I first entered at the gates of hell . . . One night in 18th-century Japan, at the hour of the Ox, a young boy named Iwajiro sits in a state of pure concentration. At the foot of Mount Fuji, behind screen walls and amidst curls of incense smoke Iwajiro chants the Tenjin Sutra, an act of devotion learned from his beloved mother. On the side of the same mountain, 20 years on, he will sit in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. This is not the first time he has seen hell. This man will become Hakuin, one of the greatest teachers in the history of Zen. His quest for truth will call on him to defy his father, to face death, to find love and to lose it. He will ask, what is the sound of one hand clapping? And he will master his greatest fear. This fictionalized account of a legendary Zen master is the story of a tremendous life.

Recenzje

A brave, ambitious and wonderfully insightful book KEVIN MacNEIL, author of THE STORNAWAY WAY

O autorze

Alan Spence is an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer and is the author of six works of fiction, six collections of poetry and six plays. His awards include the Glenfiddich Award, The People's Prize, Macallan Short Story Prize and McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. He is Professor Emeritus in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen where he founded the annual WORD Festival in 1999 and was its Artistic Director for twelve years. With his wife he runs the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre in Edinburgh. In 2017 he was appointed Edinburgh Makar, the Poet Laureate for the City.