Italy or "Say It Like You Eat It" or 36 Tales About the Pursuit of Pleasure

This book is divided into three parts - Italy, India, Indonesia. Each part is divided into 36 short tales. The reason for this structure is because it's like the japa mala, which is a string of 108 beads, which each bead meaning something. Here's a section from the book explaining it a little better :

"The traditional japa mala is strung with 108 beads. Amid the more esoteric circles of Eastern philosophers, the number 108 is held to be most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to nine, which is three threes. And three, of course, is the number representing supreme balance...."


And so, her whole book is divided into 108 tales, three parts with 36 stories in each.

Japa Mala