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From the copy writer whose debut novel, The Hundred-Foot Quest, is constantly on the charm readers about the world comes a modern fairy tale about a man who detects his true getting in touch with in a international land. Featuring wealthy information and a solid of eccentric characters, this is a modern fable about a Japanese Buddhist priest who ends up finding himself in the unlikeliest of places. Growing up in a quaint mountainside town in Japan, Seido Oda put in his boyhood angling in clear mountainside streams and aiding his parents run their small inn. At age 11, Oda is sent to study with the monks at a local Buddhist temple. This peaceful, tranquil refuge in the remote control mountains of Japan becomes home for the introverted monk - until he approaches his 40th birthday and is bought by his superior to cross the sea and open a temple in Brooklyn. Ripped from the isolated, serene life of his homeland temple, Oda will get a distress to his system in NY - a motley staff of American Buddhists whose misguided procedures lead to a bunch of hilarious ethnic misunderstandings. It is merely when Oda involves appreciate the Us citizens, flaws and everything, that he views his own shortcomings and finally detects that sense of owed he has always searched for. A lively and vivid novel, this enjoyable and edifying deep breathing on this is of true approval stirs from the very first page. Richard C. Morais, author of The Hundred-Foot Quest, is a contributing editor at Barron's in NY. An American brought up in Switzerland, he was stationed in London for 17 years, where he was Forbes' Western bureau chief.
