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Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction

Pico Iyer, Victor Pelevin, Doris Dorrie and other renowned contributors join young award-winners in what National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson calls "an embarrassment of literary riches," sure to please fiction lovers of every stripe. From the O. Henry Award-winning title story, to visionary short-shorts and barely fictionalized personal memoirs, Nixon Under the Bodhi Treeis inventive, exciting, and unlike any collection before it.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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