Dragon Palace
by Hiromi Kawakami
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Pub Date Sep 19 2023 | Archive Date Sep 16 2023
Stone Bridge Press | MONKEY
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Description
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023
Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty—in a world where the laws of time and space, and even species boundaries, don’t apply. Meet a shape-shifting con man, a goddess who uses sex to control her followers, an elderly man possessed by a fox spirit, a woman who falls in love with her 400-year-old ancestor, a kitchen god with three faces in a weasel-infested apartment block, moles who provide underground sanctuary for humans who have lost the will to live, a man nurtured through life by his seven extraordinary sisters, and a woman who is handed from husband to husband until she is finally able to return to the sea.
Advance Praise
“How can a person resist?”
—Paris Review
“Beguiling and beautiful.”
—The Times
“Quirky and delicate . . . timeless . . . I fell totally under the spell.”
—Daily Mail
“Kawakami knows she doesn’t need fireworks to keep the reader entertained, and is pushing her exploration of form and style.”
—The Japan Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781737625353 |
| PRICE | $18.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 160 |
Links
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