In the heat and complexity of 1920s colonial Vietnam, a people caught between the world they had inherited and the world being imposed upon them reached toward heaven --- and the divine answered. Harmonia stands on the steps of the extraordinary Holy See at Ty Ninh and asks a simple question: how did this get here? The answer leads to L Vn Trung, a man who had everything and was losing himself, who found his way back --- and in doing so helped build a tradition that made an audacious and beautiful claim: that the divine has never belonged to any single people, any single age, or any single tradition.

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