Dragon palace
Call Number
- FICTION KAWA (CEN)
Publication Information
Berkeley, California : Stone Bridge Press, [2023]
Physical Description
167 pages ; 20 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny. An otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humour, 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."--Publisher.
Notes
"Originally published in Japan as Ryugu. Original Japanese text ©2002 Hiromi Kawakami."--Title page verso.
Contents
- Hokusai
- Dragon place
- Fox's den
- The Kitchen god
- Mole
- The Roar
- Shimazaki
- Sea horse