A quantum love story told by a temple sweeper who has not spoken in twenty-five years about a one-eyed boy and mute girl moving through time to an island monastery—where stones have become dreams, dreams have become bones, bones have become prayers and prayers have become the world. “This astonishing work smashes all barriers of time and space. This novel is itself an extended Zen koan that plays on the flute of traditional Zen literary tropes like a virtuoso.” —Norman Fischer