Krasznahorkai László - Északról hegy Délről tó Nyugatról utak Keletről folyó

Északról hegy Délről tó Nyugatról utak Keletről folyó is a novel by Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, published in 2003 by Magvető Kiadó. The story opens at a deserted station on Kyoto's hypermodern express railway, where a fragile, strikingly beautiful young man arrives: the grandson of Prince Genji. He knows nothing for certain, yet something tells him he will find here what he has sought for centuries, a monastery and within it the most beautiful garden in the world.

The narrative is a search for an image that may once have flashed before us, though we cannot recall it. A constant sense of lack blends with the hope that what is so missing must exist, and that we only need to become capable of finding it. Unfolding this search is the story itself, a haunting, poetic evocation of the image that never leaves us.

The novel runs to 144 pages and comes in a hardback binding with a dust jacket.