About the Author<br>Ferencz Lazar‑Mand was born and raised in Cluj‑Napoca, Romania, and lives at the crossroads between two worlds: the world of technique and the world of art. An engineer by training but an artist by inner vocation, he has turned his professional path into a space of reflection, where logic, structure and computers coexist naturally with literature, architecture and aesthetic sensitivity.<br>His literary universe is shaped by a lasting fascination with Japanese culture — with its delicate introspection and its deep internal tension — as well as by essential landmarks of modern and contemporary world literature, from European modernism to American prose of the twentieth century. From this blend of traditions, voices and aesthetics emerges a personal way of seeing the world: not as a single space, but as a constellation of worlds that touch, collide and transform one another.<br>His writing explores these passages between worlds — cultural, emotional and spiritual. In this novella, these worlds take shape in the encounter between Romania and Japan; in other texts, they appear in different forms, yet they continue to revolve around the same fundamental question: what remains constant in us, regardless of language, geography or tradition?<br>
