How is existence stitched together, and what worlds reside between its seams? How can individual and collective suffering be redeemed? Can language, shaped by domination and exploitation, be used to transcend ignorance?
Wasteland Mandala is a genre-b(l)ending literary novel that follows a first-person narrator through repetitive cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Each consecutive world explores a specific struggle against ignorance, domination, and cruelty. Weaving together threads of fable, myth, poetry, philosophy, and surrealism, this novel laments the suffering of sentient beings and speculates about their redemption through collective endeavor, while carrying the reader on waves of melancholy, lyrical prose strewn with absurdist, sing-song verse.
Genres
Hybrid writing ▪ Literary fiction ▪ Experimental ▪ Novel-in-verse ▪ Surrealism
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