Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Quote from Kanlaon's Blog - on Mo Yan by Ian Buruma

Two translations of Mo Yan, both by Howard Goldblatt: Sandalwood Death and Pow! The review is by Ian Buruma, who says of Mo Yan: “There is nothing mandarin, or even urbane, about Mo Yan’s work. He has retained the earthy character of rural Shandong, where he grew up in a farming family.” http://anthropologist.wordpress.com/author/anthropologist/

Special--Pico Iyer's Aflame, The Art of Silence and another book--scroll down.

https://www.amazon.com/Aflame-Learning-Silence-Pico-Iyer/dp/0593420284 More than 100 retreats in a Benedictine monastery in Big Sur,CA. W...