A Zen Romance: One Woman's Adventures in a Monastery
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Book Overview
A Zen Romance is a look back at one young woman's search for true love and deeper meaning in and around a Buddhist temple in the Kyoto of the 1960s. Boehm was a college student with a philosophical... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:4770020325
ISBN13:9784770020321
Release Date:January 1996
Publisher:Kodansha
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.6" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Sushi for the Soul
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Far from being a self-aggrandizing memoir, a travelogue or a spiritual manual, this book reads like a rich, delicious novel. Sandra Boliver Boehm writes with a sense of humor about her college-age self, and with meticulous and sensual detail about her experiences in Japan in the 1970's. Her descriptions of the food she ate are enough to make a reader crave sushi every night. This is a phenominal coming-of-age tale, and a must for any intelligent young woman with a lust for adventure.
I wanted to give it SIX!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Some of the most exquisite writing I've ever encountered. This delightful memoir is quizzical, poignant, sparkling, honest and brilliant. It conveys the feel of a youthful search for spiritual adventure while unconsciously brimming with maturity and a rare kind of courage, both earthy and lofty. I'm eager for more, much more, from this exceptionally witty, literate and lyrical voice.
A vivid recounting of a young American woman's time in Kyoto
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I have strong ambivalencies about the time I spent living in Japan, but reading this book evoked such strong, nostalgic images of all that is right and true about Japanese culture that I was ready to hop the next plane. I only wish that I had had her apparently excellent Japanese language skills, the more romantic locale of Kyoto over the more industrial Kobe where I lived, and the better luck with Japanese men!
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