Dragon Palace
Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami, published by Stone Bridge Press in 2023, presents a collection of eight transformative stories that blend reality, myth, and the complexities of human experience. Written in English and spanning 160 pages, this edition showcases Kawakami’s unique narrative style, where themes of gender, biology, and destiny intertwine in unexpected ways.
Readers will encounter a diverse array of characters, including a shape-shifting con man and a goddess wielding control through seduction. The stories explore the universal quests for love and beauty, set against a backdrop where the conventional boundaries of time and space are fluid. Each tale invites reflection on the human condition, featuring elements of humor and the surreal, making this collection a significant addition to contemporary literary fiction and world literature.
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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.
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