Buddha's Pass

<p>In a remote mountain hollow where the Guanzhong Plain meets Shangzhou lies the secluded town of Foguan - a place where ugliness is worshipped as beauty. Here the townspeople are grotesquely misshapen and even the fruits vegetables and trees twist into bizarre unnatural forms. Against this strange backdrop Duizi and his cousin blessed with natural beauty become the targets of envy resentment and violence.</p><p>Told in a first-person stream-of-consciousness style the novel masterfully blends deep psychological exploration with mysticism evoking a haunting grotesque aesthetic reminiscent of ancient classics like <em>The Classic of Mountains and Seas</em>and <em>In Search of the Supernatural</em>.</p>