Author:Thich Nhat Hanh
A devoted student and diligent worker at the Dharma Cloud Temple monastery, Kinh Tam is not who he appears to be. And yet the novice's true identity cannot be revealed without Kinh paying a terrible price.
To continue on the path to enlightenment, Kinh must suffer false accusations, physical hardship and public humiliation without complaint. With absolute grace, astounding compassion and unwavering resolve, the novice perseveres in the face of every challenge. Ultimately, Kinh Tam's moving fate will transform lives and offer hope for us all.
In these pages, Zen master, poet and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh retells an ancient Vietnamese folk tale, sharing Kinh's story as a teaching and proposing a real way of being in the the world that is utterly relevant now, in the twenty-first century.
One of our most treasured spiritual teachers tells a story that will touch your heart. So beautiful.
—— Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to LoveThich Nhat Hanh has given us a luminous book. The Novice is both instructive and haunting. Its heroine holds a lantern for all seekers.
—— Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's WayThich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.
—— Martin Luther King, Jr., in nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace PrizeThich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth.
—— His Holiness the Dalai LamaThich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
—— Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and DyingMindfulness has become a serious movement, now with champions among policy makers as well as Buddhists. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of its guiding spirits
—— The Times Literary SupplementThich Nhat Hanh's words are like water. Simple, pure, transparent, and absolutely indispensable for life
—— Alejandro Iñárritu, director of Birdman and The RevenantDescribes the painful process by which a human being becomes a symbol
—— Sunday Telegraph (Seven)Sprawling, intimate, surreal, it exerts a mesmeric hold
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentPoignant and honest
—— Big Issue in the NorthJoseph Anton conveys a clear and shaming picture of his ordeal… The reader is fully on Rushdie’s side.
—— Pankaj Mishra , GuardianA frank and zestful memoir...a precious historical document and an immersive page-turning read...pacey, intimate, surreal, whipped along by love and scorn and overflowing with tall tales...it exerts a mesmeric hold with high-octane storytelling.
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentThe book speaks to the heart, and to conscience.
—— John Lloyd , Financial TimesAn indispensable text that needs no description.
—— Margaret Drabble , New StatesmanThe most gripping, moving and entertaining literary memoir I have ever read.
—— Amanda Craig , Independent on SundayThe story Rushdie tells is never less than gripping.
—— Colin McCabe , New StatesmanA magnificent new memoir.
—— Matthew d’Ancona , Evening StandardThis moving, sometimes irritating, often beautiful and blissfully funny memoir is also a resounding manifesto, reminding us that novelists have a right and duty to tackle the most controversial subjects.
—— Jake Kerridge , Sunday ExpressHis big, bold, controversial memoir…matches Rushdie’s confident personality.
—— Ian Finlayson , The Times[A book that] rattles with the terror of the moment.
—— Graeme Wood , Barnes & Noble ReviewThe big book of the week was Salman Rushdie's memoir Joseph Anton
—— GuardianIt’s an extraordinary document.
—— Anthony Cummins , MetroRushdie says art outlasts persecution, but artists may not. A look at how this dichotomy has played out in his life.
—— Salil Tripathi , Live MintJoseph Anton is as riveting for the small vignettes as the big, historical sweep.
—— Ginny Dougary , Financial TimesReads like a thriller...painfully true.
—— Robert McCrum , ObserverHe is compelling here...grippingly reconstructing his long years in hiding.
—— Robert Collins , Sunday Times[N]ot many Americans had heard of Rushdie until Valentines Day, 1989, when the dying Ayatollah Khomeni of Iran issued the infamous fatwa calling for Rushdie’s head... Rushdie spent most of the next decade in hiding, accompanied by armed British agents. He’s now published his account of that stranger-than-fiction time: Joseph Anton: A Memoir.
—— Kurt Andersen , Studio 360Aside from the vivid, splendidly told account of his childhood and family background, Rushdie's book charts in, fascinating, grimly humourous detail, the shadowy half-life he lived until that fatwah was lifted on March 27, 2002.
—— Paddy Kehoe , RTE Ten