A tale of war, lost children, a traveling circus, a shaman, and a ghostwoman, told by a temple sweeper who has not spoken in twenty-five years. A love story of a one-eyed boy and mute girl that moves through quantum time from a ravaged landscape to an island monastery of refuge.

 

Here is the opening letter and first of twenty-one scrolls written by the scribe and monk with whom the temple sweeper confides his story on the eve of departing his body.