China Book Club: 'Heart Sutra' by Yan Lianke

Yahui is a Buddhist student at a peculiar university. Her classmates include Buddhists, Protestants, Catholics, Daoists and Muslims whose deities are never far from the classroom.

When she meets a Daoist student called Mingzheng, a romance begins to turn everything on its head. In this deeply ethereal story, Yan Lianke remakes the campus novel in bizarre yet relatable ways.