About the Book: Seiobo There Below
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Beauty, in Laszlo
Krasznahorkais new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred-even if we are
mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess
Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Buddha
being restored; the Italian renaissance painter Perugino managing his workshop;
a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing to a
handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japans most
sacred shrine; a heron as it gracefully hunts its prey. Told in chapters that
sweep us across the world