The Sea Bed

An intriguing, understated, and beautiful narrative of a Japanese Buddhist monk who has to travel to a remote fishing village on a task of love and duty, and a young woman who is returning to the village of her birth   A novel of desire, duty, and secrets follows the journey of a Buddhist monk who leaves the safe predictability of his mountain monastery and ventures into the world to carry out a fellow monk's dying request. When he encounters abalone diving women in a remote coastal vi