A new book, “A Crystal in a Transparent Setting”—a unique, almost literary account that is at the same time full of astonishing facts about life in the Far East. “I’m just a person living by the sea,” the author says. “Almost any of my fellow locals knows more about fish, the sea, and stones than I do. But none of them writes about what I would like to read. Fish and stones stay silent. So I have to speak.”
The book made the shortlist for the “National Bestseller” award.