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FIN is a near magical tale with a deft comic touch, composed of three inter-related novellas (THE MANDALA SOCIETY, PAVANNE FOR THE SELFISH GENE, and THE DINNER PARTY) with recurring, vividly real characters and Fin, named after the American five dollar bill, as the common, unifying narrator. He is a wealthy Canadian idler claiming, for lack of better, to be an amateur theologian ("never been proven wrong") while traveling the U.S. and the wilder shores of love with varying results. He explores San Francisco and its elites, a Vermont academic world featuring murder most foul and the Lake...

Professor Alexander V. Vovin’s fruitful research has brought incomparable results to the fields of Asian linguistics and philology throughout the past four decades. In this volume, presented in honour of Professor Vovin’s 60th birthday, twenty-two authors present new research regarding Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Khitan, Yakut, Mongolian, Chinese, Hachijō, Ikema Miyakoan, Ainu, Okinawan, Nivkh, Eskimo-Aleut and other languages. The chapters are both a tribute to his research and a summary of the latest developments in the field.