When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East by Barry, Quan

When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East

From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a luminous novel that moves across a...
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When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East by Barry, Quan

When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East

$26.00

When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East

$26.00
Author: Quan Barry
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding.

"A dazzling achievement...The rhythms are more like prayer than prose, and the puzzlelike plot yields revelations." --The New York Times

Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama--a spiritual teacher who may have been born anywhere in the vast Mongolian landscape--the young monk Chuluun sets out with his identical twin, Mun, who has rejected the monastic life they once shared. Their relationship will be tested on this journey through their homeland as each possesses the ability to hear the other's thoughts.

Proving once again that she is a writer of immense range and imagination, Quan Barry carries us across a terrain as unforgiving as it is beautiful and culturally varied, from the western Altai mountains to the eerie starkness of the Gobi Desert to the ancient capital of Chinggis Khaan. As their country stretches before them, questions of faith--along with more earthly matters of love and brotherhood--haunt the twins.

Are our lives our own, or do we belong to something larger? When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East is a stunningly far-flung examination of our individual struggle to retain our convictions and discover meaning in a fast-changing world, as well as a meditation on accepting what simply is.

Author: Quan Barry
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780525565444

About the Author
Born in Saigon and raised in Massachusetts, QUAN BARRY is the author of the novels She Weeps Each Time You're Born and We Ride Upon Sticks (winner of the 2020 ALA Alex Award) and four books of poetry, including Water Puppets (winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and a PEN Open Book finalist). Barry's first play, The Mytilenean Debate, premieres in the spring of 2022. She is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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