I LOVE LORD BUDDHA is the transgressive, transcendent first novel that some are calling the future of literature, and others are calling a post-pornographic revolution. Set in late-90’s Tokyo, it recounts the history of the Neo-Geisha Organization, a sex-and-death cult with an anti-consumerist, pro-hedonist, sub-Buddhist ideology. The cult is led by Hiyoko, a leggy Westerner with a penchant for Eastern philosophy and drug-fuelled sex binges. Her followers are the young women whose curiosity and perfect bodies have taken them thousands of miles from home to work in Tokyo’s neon-lit network of hostess bars.

I LOVE LORD BUDDHA takes its inspiration from the classical Japanese literature of the first millennium, the AUM Shinrikyo subway-gas cult, and the esoteric texts of Buddhism, while recalling the ultra-modern iconography of films like Kill Bill 1. Reading like manga, sounding like hard techno, feeling like fetish, I LOVE LORD BUDDHA paves the way for a new literature of undiluted aesthetics and ecstasy.

Hillary Raphael is the author of the cult novel BACKPACKER and the dance guide, OUTCAST SAMURAI DANCER, both published by Creation Books. Her short stories have been widely anthologized in the UK, and her column, Notes from a Neo-Geisha can be read online at 3ammagazine.com. She lives in the United States. Reach her at hillaryraphael@futurefiction.co.uk.

“Hillary Raphael’s devastating first novel delicately incises the raw sensorial material that makes Tokyo the most compelling contemporary city: sex, obsession, digital excess and religious terrorism. Haunting and innovative, it’s a brilliantly multi-vocal debut that will leave its readers begging for more of its intense and aberrant pleasures. Intoxicating.” –Stephen Barber

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