The Black Isle Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novelette for "Omphalos" (2020) strong in humor and rich

strong in humor and rich in Chinese wisdom

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Follow the brilliant and hilarious adventures of the Zen Buddhist monk who became one of China's greatest folk heroes

The Black Isle Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novelette for "Omphalos" (2020) strong in humor and richAnyone who has lived as long as I have, and who has done the things I have, knows there will come a reckoning Uprooted from her Shanghai childhood, young Cassandra is sent with her father and twin brother to live on the Black Isle. A teeming British colony in the Indonesian archipelago, the Isle is a seaport haunted by a restive multitude of ghosts . . . ghosts that Cassandra can see. These spirits will face off against the forces of modernity,