Fiction

One of the best collections Ive ever read. Every single story is a standout.Roxane Gay

Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments.Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

This new publication from the Buddhist Society brings together twenty-one stories with over fifty colour illustrations, which are accompanied by a map of the Old Silk Road and an extensive glossary.

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.