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Dragon Palace
Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.
Stone Bridge Press
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‘How can a person resist?’ – The Paris Review
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 humour, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty, it presents 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.
‘Unique and attention-grabbing, Dragon Palace is a collection of open-ended fantasy tales about thwarted love and lost opportunities.’ – Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews
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Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami is a collection of eight stories where spirits, animals, and human characters interact in an intriguing blend of the mystical and mundane. The book captures the strangeness and emotional depth of human relationships with a quirky and sometimes unsettling humour. Critics have commended Kawakami for using the absurd to explore themes of isolation and connection, while effectively merging folklore and surrealism with contemporary life and social issues.
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ISBN: 9781737625353
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 November 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: MONKEY
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Translated by Ted Goossen
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Hiromi Kawakami is one of Japan's most popular novelists. Many of her books have been published in English, including Manazuru, The Nakano Thrift Shop, Parade, Record of a Night Too Brief, Strange Weather in Tokyo (shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2013), and The Ten Loves of Nishino. People from My Neighborhood, translated by Ted Goossen, was published in 2020.
Ted Goossen is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories. He translated Haruki Murakami's Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore.
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