The book has already received praise from other authors. ![]() As a parent of young children, I wanted to test that conclusion in an extreme setting, to try taking a belief held by much of the world, i.e., that the world is going to end, and ask: If the end was really around the corner and everyone knew it, could people still have hope?” ![]() “Many people I knew had an understandably fatalistic view of the future. “This book came about at a time when there was a sense of pessimism and darkness in the world,” says Boey. ![]() “Karma of the Sun” follows a young Tibetan Sherpa, in an imagined future of the earth’s last days, who hunts for his missing father in the ruined nuclear winterland of the Himalayas, racing against a final calamity that threatens to destroy all humanity. Before author Brandon Ying Kit Boey settled in Maine, he worked as a child actor, intern at Marvel, investment banker, and lawyer, with the one constant occupation being writing.īoey decided to write his debut novel, “Karma of the Sun,” because he had never seen a novel about the end of the world written from an Asian perspective, despite a richness of Eastern cosmological and eschatological traditions.
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