An adolescent boy sails to Mount Athos. His spiritual and erotic wanderings among the monasteries and remote hermitages of the Holy Mountain take both author and reader on a journey of
self-discovery. Augiéras himself spoke of Athos as a place where you "find everything within yourself," and of this book as "a sojourn in the Land of the Spirits according to the strictest
Buddhist or Pythagorean Orthodoxy." Described variously as an anti-Christian nomad, a barbarian in the West, and a madman, Augiéras is one of France’s great underground writers. Like its
author, this remarkable novel is full of subtle, ancient wisdom.
