Europa Editions

‘The Angry Buddhist’ To Be Released Tomorrow, Reviewed by New York Times, Los Angeles Times

“Everyone knows that when a certain kind of single American female on a Mexican holiday drinks too much tequila she will get a tattoo. And when she is in a sybaritic seaside town like Puerto Vallarta with a girlfriend, they will get matching ones.” 

And so begins the prologue of our newest novel, The Angry Buddhist by Seth Greenland.  The Los Angeles Times referenced the scene as a jumping-off point for the novel’s core storyline, the “madcap final week of a congressional race.” 

Hopefully, this setting won’t be too unfamiliar in our election year: Character Mary Swain is described by the LA Times as a “revved-up Sarah Palin,” and that’s a comparison we wouldn’t argue with. 

Interwoven with this political plot is the romance between two women - one the wife of a candidate - and squabbles among three brothers, one of whom is “the angry Buddhist” himself.  

The New York Times credits Greenland with an “escapist fable” that is “elaborately structured yet remarkably knot-free.” 

The book, at 395 pages, deserves its prologue. But it’s also “swift-moving,” and gripping, and all parts are essential. We hope that it stays with you as long as it has with us. 

And we hope you are as equally excited about its release! 

We Agree About 12 Who Don’t Agree

“Panyushkin writes in vivid tableaux — for example, a scene in a cafe deep in the woods, the candles sputtering, the dissidents bent over their maps; a gray street in St. Petersburg, the banners and flags of the protesters waving against the line of OMON officers wielding truncheons.” From the LA Times’ review of Valery Panyushkin’s 12 Who Don’t Agree