ARGONAUT BOOKS

Darkly exhilarating and daringNew York TimesHeart Sutra...has startling pleasures... similes are sharp, synaesthetic and anchored in the lives of the charactersThe TelegraphHeart Sutra is a warm-hearted, if not gentle, satire that skewers religious institutions without mocking faith itself . . . A deeply satisfying read . . . Yan's storytelling has a luminous, irrepressible qualityNPR - Lily MeyerOne of those rare geniuses who finds in the peculiar absurdities of his own culture the absurdities that infect all culturesWashington PostPicaresque, but with serious matters of faith, love, and poli...Read More