LIZA DALBY

Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos

Tuesday, November 10, 7:30 PM

Berkeley Arts & Letters @ The Hillside Club

2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley

$12 advance ($6 students with ID advance) at Brown Paper Tickets or 800-838-3006 /$15 door

"With its fascinating story of characters caught up in a world they themselves don't understand, Hidden Buddhas may well be Liza Dalby's best work yet. Besides taking us on a journey through little-known corners of Japan, it offers us an engaging and believable portrait of people driven to do things they may not have imagined." --Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha

According to esoteric Buddhist theology, the world is suffering through a final corrupt era. Many in Japan believe that after the world ends, the Buddha of the Future will appear and bring about a new age of enlightenment. Hundreds of temples in Japan are known to keep mysterious "hidden buddhas" secreted away except on rare designated viewing days. Are they being protected, or are they protecting the world?

From these ancient notions of doom and rebirth comes a startling new novel by the acclaimed author of Geisha and The Tale of Murasaki. Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos  explores the karmic connections between Japanese fashion, pilgrimage, dying honeybees, bad girls with cell phones, murder by blowfish, and the Buddhist apocalypse. At this special event, Dalby will read from her new novel, answer questions about Japanese culture and history, and sign copies of her book.

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