Dalby has fashioned a wicked story, a veritable Japanese Da Vinci Code. But the story is only half the reader’s pleasure. Her sentences are sleek and sharp and fit. She’s some couturier of verbiage!

Monty Sher

I finished reading Hidden Buddhas on Bart on Tuesday.  In fact, I nearly missed my stop on the way home and had to sit on a platform bench in the North Berkeley station for a minute to finish the last half of the last page.  

Susan Matisoff

It's wonderful!  I was mesmerized and surprised at many turns, mostly by the weaving together of inventive tale and enticing cultural detailed information; your embodiment and confusion of evil and hope…

Mostly, thanks for a wonderful reading experience!

Katherine Saltzman-Li

Hidden Buddhas may well be Liza Dalby’s best work yet, with its fascinating story of characters caught up in a world they themselves don’t understand. Besides taking us on a journey through little-known corners of Japan, it offers us an engaging and believable portrait of people driven to do things they may not have imagined.

Arthur Golden

In Hidden Buddhas, Liza Dalby explores the mysterious webs of love, friendship and truths simple and profound with grace and wisdom.  Dalby's magical mystery tour takes the reader on a strange, compelling journey across continents, cultures and centuries into the dark corners of faith and the human heart.

Jeffrey Hantover