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From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comesa luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia as estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty conflict and renewed understanding
A dazzling achievementThe rhythms are more like prayer than prose and the puzzlelike plot yields revelationsThe New York Times
Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lamaa spiritual teacher who may have been born anywhere in the vast Mongolian landscapethe young monk Chuluun sets out with his identical twin Mun who has rejected the monastic life they once shared Their relationship will be testedon this journey through their homeland as eachpossesses the ability to hear the others thoughts
Proving once again that she is a writer of immense range and imagination Quan Barry carries us across a terrain as unforgiving as it is beautiful and culturally varied from the western Altai mountains to the eerie starkness of the Gobi Desert to the ancient capital of Chinggis Khaan As their country stretches before them questions of faithalong with more earthly matters of love and brotherhoodhaunt the twins
Are our lives our own or do we belong to something larger When Im Gone Look for Me in the East is a stunningly farflung examination of our individual struggle to retain our convictions and discover meaning in a fastchanging world as well as a meditation on accepting what simply is
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