Vaseline Buddha

By Young-moon Jung

Book Overview

"If someone in the future asks in frustration, 'What has Korean literature been up to?' we can quietly hand them Vaseline Buddha." -- Pak Mingyu

A tragicomic odyssey told through free association scrubs the depths of the human psyche to achieve a higher level of consciousness equal to Zen meditation. The story opens when our sleepless narrator thwarts a would-be thief outside his moonlit window, then delves into his subconscious imagination to explore a variety of geographical and mental locations--real, unreal, surreal--to explore the very nature of reality.

Jung Young Moon, 2005 alum of Iowa's International Writing Program, is one of South Korea's most award-winning, eccentric, and handsome authors, often compared to Kafka and Beckett.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941920349
• ISBN13: 9781941920343
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.1"