Seiobo There Below

by László Krasznahorkai & translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Seiobo There Below is a collection of 17 stories by Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, about the creation of art. Seiobo is the Japanese name for Xiwangmu, whose garden, according to Chinese legend, bears peaches of immortality every three millennia. According to Anders Olsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee, “alongside his quintet of epics, it represents Krasznahorkai’s major work.” Don’t be confused by the chapter numbers; they go up like a Fibonacci sequence.