A long and dangerous journey into the heart of Asia ends with the travelers ending up… Heaven.
…Parnov managed, in a short novella, to weave mysticism, fantasy, a detective plot, the East and the West, love, death, and Eternity so successfully. If someone read his Third Eye of Shiva, they will remember his version of the Ring of Wishes—an eastern tale of Tibet, where the exotic beauty of mountains and monasteries is bizarre and magical, and the plot is frightening and ruthless, like Tibetan deities on the monastery walls: mysterious, alluring, and terrible.