Asian Absences is the contemplative & lyrical narrative of a traveller whose sensory & spiritual journey takes him from Copenhagen to Eastern Asia. En route, he passes through a feverish India & an abandoned hospital for lepers, undertakes a hallucinogenic mountain pilgrimage with shamans in Kathmandu, embarks on an industrial oil tanker to Singapore, & examines the beautifully odd A” curiosities of Tokyo`s metropolis, before arriving at his final destination, the elusive Tibetan city of Shangri-La. Wolfgang Buscher vividly captures the conflicting emotional & intellectual responses of a stranger in distant lands, evoking both the exotic wonder & threatening otherness of unfamiliar cultures that repeatedly challenge mythic assumptions about the East.