Heart Sutra av Yan Lianke

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<p><b>Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- ''China''s most controversial novelist'' (<i>New Yorker)</i> -- returns with a campus novel <i>like no other</i> following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptation</b><br><br><i>To tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for the sake of stories that everyone lives on this earth.</i><br><br>Yahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom.<br><br>Her days are measured out making elaborate religious papercuts, taking part in highly charged tug-of-war competitions between the faiths and trying to resist the daily temptation to return to secular life and abandon the ascetic ideals that are