On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is not the first time he has seen hell.
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize
An electric memoir about what it means to live outside the gender boundaries imposed on us by society, from the award-winning trans writer and performer
An electric memoir about what it means to live outside the gender boundaries imposed on us by society, from the award-winning trans writer and performer