A Western student in China in the 1970s is drawn to the greengrocer Tumchooq and his stories, but when he disappears, the young woman, now pregnant with Tumchooq's child, goes in search of answers about his tale of a missing silk scroll said to be inscribed with a lost sutra composed by the Buddha.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: women translators, china, fiction, manuscripts, chinese, buddhist literature, french fiction, translations into english