![]() StartingPoints Referenced by
|
Shibumi
Keywords: Culture & History
Shibumi is a novel by Trevanian. From the back cover: Nicholai Hel Born in the ravages of World War I China to an aristoctraic Russian mother and a mysterious German father, raised in the spiritual gardens of a Japanese Go master, he survifes the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished-and highly paid-assassin. Genius, mystic, master of language and culture, Hel's secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection...shibumi. The parts are titled as follows: Fuseki, Sabaki, Seki, Uttegae, Shicho, and Tsuru no Sugomori This is a copy of the living page "Shibumi" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |