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by Keith Kachtick (Editor); Foreword by Surya Das

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The stories in You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction dramatize the spirit of Buddhism, often with wit, always with verve, and each in some distinctly vivid way. Only a few of these stories touch on the Dharma explicitly and this book takes you on an inward tour across the whole world-to the jungles of Indonesia, a fog-shrouded park in San Francisco, the sun-blistered African veldt, a Burmese monastery surrounded by gun-fire, and the church-like sanctuary of a Nebraska barn, just to name a few. Collectively these stories paint a living portrait of the face of Buddhism, and readers may discover that that face is a strangely familiar one-and that every journey only ever leads home.

Edited by Keith Kachtick--the author of Hungry Ghost: A Novel (A New York Times Notable Book), You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction--offers more surprising and transcendent work from some of fiction's famous names, alongside that of names you've never heard before--but surely will again:

Lama Surya Das, Keith Kachtick, Robert Olen Butler, Kate Wheeler, Anne Donovan, Samantha Schoech, Mary Yukari Waters, Andrew Foster Altschul, Jess Row, Anh Chi Pham, Sean Murphy, Pico Iyer, Dan Zigmond, Michele Martin, Sean Hoade, Jeff Davis, Jake Lorfing, Geshe Michael Roach, Anne Carolyn Klein, Dean Sluyter, Mark Salzman, and Hal Hallstein.

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A RECENT New Yorker cartoon depicts a middle-aged man slumped before an office computer, his tie loosened, daydreaming about playing golf.

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  • Title You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction
  • Author Keith Kachtick (Editor); Foreword by Surya Das
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wisdom Publications, Boston
  • Publication date April 24, 2006
  • Features Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780861712915 / 0861712919
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.08 x 0.65 in (22.81 x 15.44 x 1.65 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Buddhist stories, American
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006000537
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.010

About the author

Keith Kachtick is the author of Hungry Ghost (Harper Perennial, 2004). He lives in Austin, Texas. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Lama Surya Das is the bestselling author of several books including Awakening the Buddha Within. The founder and main teacher of the Dzogchen Foundation, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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