The Little Buddhist Monk
- Authors
- Caistor, Nick
- Publisher
- And Other Stories Publishing
- Tags
- fiction;argentina;argentinian;argentine;buenos aires;korea;seoul;buddhism;buddhist;buddhism in literature;novel;novella;literature in translation;translated fiction;translated literature;asia;tourist;tourism;tour guide;french tourist;napoleon;chirac;jacqueline;bloodymary;camera;photographer;panoramic photography;robot;robotics;hologram;magic;the seamstress and the wind;el pequeño monje budista;3 novels;three novels;la prueba;the proof;ghosts;the literary conference;musical brain;how i became a nun;episode in the life of a landscape painter;bolano;bolaño;patti smith;borges;jorge luis borges;man booker international;manuel rojas prize
- Date
- 2017-01-20T15:55:24+00:00
- Size
- 2.28 MB
- Lang
- en
In Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf-sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and Jacqueline Bloodymary, he offers his services as their guide, in the hope they will take him, a penniless monk, to Europe. He whisks them off on a tour of the temples. Among the many twists and turns, our stunned tourists encounter a suicidal horse and discover that a person can also be a robot. Though our monk appears to them as the very spirit of tourism, nothing is natural in this tour de force of Aira’s twisted imagination.
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