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From China's foremost literary satirist (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priestAt the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religionsBuddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islamgather for a year of intensive study and training. In this hallowed yet jovial atmosphere, the institute's two youngest disciplesYahui, a Buddhist jade nun, and Gu Mingzheng, a Daoist masterfall into a fast ...
From China's foremost literary satirist (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest
At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religionsBuddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islamgather for a year of intensive study and training. In this hallowed yet jovial atmosphere, the institute's two youngest disciplesYahui, a Buddhist jade nun, and Gu Mingzheng, a Daoist masterfall into a fast friendship that might bloom into something more.
This year, however, the worldly Director Gong has an exciting new plan: he has organized tug-of-war competitions between the religions. The fervor of competition offers excitement for the disciples, as well as a lucrative source of fundraising, but Yahui looks on the games with distrust: her beloved mentor collapsed after witnessing one of these competitions. Gu Mingzheng, meanwhile, has his own mission at the institute, centering on his search for his unknown father. Soon it becomes clear that corruption is seeping ever more deeply into the foundation of the institute under Director Gong's watch, and Yahui and Gu Mingzheng will be forced to ask themselves whether it is better to stay committed to an increasingly fraught faith or to return to secular life foreverand nothing less than the fate of the gods itself is at stake.
Illustrated throughout with beautiful original papercuts, animated by Yan Lianke's characteristically incisive sense of humor, Heart Sutra is a stunning and timely novel that highlights the best and worst in mankind and interrogates the costs of division.
At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religionsBuddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islamgather for a year of intensive study and training. In this hallowed yet jovial atmosphere, the institute's two youngest disciplesYahui, a Buddhist jade nun, and Gu Mingzheng, a Daoist masterfall into a fast friendship that might bloom into something more.
This year, however, the worldly Director Gong has an exciting new plan: he has organized tug-of-war competitions between the religions. The fervor of competition offers excitement for the disciples, as well as a lucrative source of fundraising, but Yahui looks on the games with distrust: her beloved mentor collapsed after witnessing one of these competitions. Gu Mingzheng, meanwhile, has his own mission at the institute, centering on his search for his unknown father. Soon it becomes clear that corruption is seeping ever more deeply into the foundation of the institute under Director Gong's watch, and Yahui and Gu Mingzheng will be forced to ask themselves whether it is better to stay committed to an increasingly fraught faith or to return to secular life foreverand nothing less than the fate of the gods itself is at stake.
Illustrated throughout with beautiful original papercuts, animated by Yan Lianke's characteristically incisive sense of humor, Heart Sutra is a stunning and timely novel that highlights the best and worst in mankind and interrogates the costs of division.
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