Mark Salzman est un romancier et auteur de non-fiction acclamé dont les œuvres explorent une gamme variée de sujets. Sa prose se caractérise par l'élégance, l'humour et un aperçu pénétrant de la condition humaine, abordant souvent des thèmes de lutte pour un idéal et de l'inévitable échec humain. Le style de Salzman allie une honnêteté déchirante à une chaleur pure et un sens de l'humour aiguisé. Sa capacité unique à capturer les complexités des luttes humaines et des changements intérieurs silencieux résonne auprès des lecteurs de tous genres et contextes culturels.
Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.
In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, life goes on in a manner virtually un-changed for centuries. Sister John of the Cross has spent years there in the service of God. And there, she alone experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is looked upon as a spiritual master. But Sister John's visions are accompanied by powerful headaches, and when a doctor reveals that they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice. For if her spiritual gifts are symptoms of illness rather than grace, will a "cure" mean the end of her visions and a soul once again dry and searching? This is the dilemma at the heart of Mark Salzman's spare, astonishing new novel. With extraordinary dexterity, the author of the best-selling Iron & Silk and The Soloist brings to life the mysterious world of the cloister, giving us a brilliantly realized portrait of women today drawn to the rigors of an ancient religious life, and of one woman's trial at the perilous intersection of faith and reason. Lying Awake is a novel of remarkable empathy and imagination, and Mark Salzman's most provocative work to date.
As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy whose brilliant musicianship reminds him of his own past.
Mit Witz und Selbstironie erzählt der Autor von 'Eisen und Seide' und 'Der Solist' von seiner wilden Zeit in den siebziger Jahren, als er davon träumte, ein buddhistischer Mönch zu werden, sich in chinesischen Kampfkünsten übte und gleichzeitig mit Marihuana experimentierte. Der hinreißende Bericht über eine Jugend zwischen zwei Kulturen.
Een wees in communistisch China gaat voor zijn boeddhistische meester een heilig boek zoeken in Amerika.
