Takaoka's Travels

Takaoka's Travels introduces the award-winning Japanese author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, who has been compared to Italo Calvino, Borges, and Tolkien. A fantasy set in the ninth century, Takaoka's Travels tells the story of a Japanese prince who sails from Japan to China to Southeast Asia in pursuit of Buddhist truth. As he approaches India, the rules of the physical world are upended. Like Alice in Wonderland, the Prince discovers curiosities and miracles everywhere he goes. Alluringly seductive and mysterious, offering high adventure yet deeply human--this is a novel like no other. With an Afterword by translator David Boyd.