Vaseline Buddha

A tragicomic odyssey told through free association from South Korea's most enigmatic contemporary author scrubs the depths of the human psyche to achieve a higher level of consciousness equal to Zen meditation. The story opens when our sleepless narrator thwarts a would-be thief outside his moonlit window, then delves into his subconscious imagination to explore a variety of geographical and mental locations - real, unreal, surreal - to explore the very nature of reality, the contours of human relationships, how travel merely exposes the meaninglessness of everyday life, and the neverending search fro the creative spark.