Crooked Cucumber

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind Beginner's Mind.  This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West.  To make up his intimate and engrossing narrative David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students friends and family.  Interspersed with previously unpublished passages from Suzuki's talks Crooked Cucumber evokes a down-to-earth life of the spirit.  Along with Suzuki we can find a way to practice with mountains trees and stones and to find ourselves in this big world.