Satori Blues: A Poem Irrational Games annotated English-language version of one

annotated English-language version of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature

Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her—her identity

and survive

reach out for the reader to embrace and hold dear

Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed

Satori Blues: A Poem Irrational Games annotated English-language version of oneSatori Blues is an extended, Zen inspired response to writings by teachers of Buddhism and post Buddhist philosophies. Composed as a stream of thoughtat times epigrammatic, philosophical, fragmented, even exclamatorythe poem becomes a concerted movement within a space of meditation, as well as a sustained, psychological record of a yearning towards spiritual truth and clarity.