Heart Sutra
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Yahui is a young Buddhist at a university populated by students of every major world religion — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist — all coexisting in a grand experiment in spiritual diversity. But this is Yan Lianke's version of campus life, which means the experiment goes spectacularly wrong. As Yahui navigates temptation, dogma, and desire, the novel spirals into a surreal exploration of what happens when faith collides with the messiness of actual human beings. Yan Lianke writes about religion with the same satirical ferocity he brings to politics — not as a debunker but as someone fascinated by the gap between what people believe and how they behave. Yahui's journey through worldly temptation is at once comic, philosophical, and deeply strange. A campus novel unlike any other — where the most dangerous thing isn't losing your faith, but discovering what it actually requires.
