Untitled Novel

von Gina Prichard

164 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Perched high amidst the wind-scoured granite of Mount Vulture's Ridge, the ancient Monastery of the White Lotus Crest stands as both an unyielding sanctuary and a merciless mirror for the soul. Into this realm of freezing silence walks Ethan Carter, a brilliant archivist consumed by the phantom smell of smoke and the agonizing memory of the fire that destroyed his wife and daughter. Desperate to escape his unendurable grief, Ethan clutches an iron-clasped box of ashes and turns to Buddhist doctrine not to liberate his heart, but to construct a cerebral fortress where mortal agony can never touch him again.Yet spiritual shelter demands a formidable reckoning. Abbess Maya Lin admits the broken scholar under a single, enigmatic decree: Ethan must reconstruct the missing final folio of the cloister's most sacred text, The Scripture of the Unbroken Mirror, before the arrival of spring. Working in the soot-stained scriptorium, Ethan finds himself caught in a tightening vice between the dogmatic contempt of Elder Alexander Wright-who views secular trauma as a contamination of holy canon-and the insidious overtures of Marcus Avery, an ambitious merchant offering rare textual commentaries in exchange for forged monastic deeds. Driven by an obsessive craving to conquer the missing leaves and prove his scholastic worth, Ethan retreats deeper into theoretical detachment, blind to the living world slipping through his ink-stained fingers.When tragedy strikes the scorched valley of An-Lạc and a deadly winter fever breaks out, Ethan's scholarly shield violently fractures. Paralyzed by the sight of open burn wounds and undone by his own manic perfectionism, a single catastrophic mistake ruins weeks of sacred work, plunging him into the abyss of his unresolved nightmare. But when an outcast bandit is left to perish in the fury of a blinding blizzard outside the abbey's bolted gates, the scholar's theoretical armor disintegrates entirely. Defying cloister rules, Ethan must plunge into the sub-zero storm, putting his own life on the line to drag a dying stranger across the threshold.Mapped across the profound four-part progression of the Four Noble Truths-Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, and Magga-The Raft Across the Void is an extraordinary work of philosophical fiction. Through luminous, sensory prose, it examines the insidious traps of spiritual hubris, the luminous paradox of Śūnyatā (Emptiness), and the transformative weight of true Bodhicitta. For readers of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, the monastic intrigue of Umberto Eco, and the deep contemplative fiction of Shūsaku Endō, this sweeping allegory delivers an unforgettable lesson: that when the river of suffering is crossed, even the most sacred raft must be gently laid down.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9798182773522
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: GINA PRICHARD