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Local Description'Unique and attention-grabbing, Dragon Palace is a collection of open-ended fantasy tales about thwarted love and lost opportunities.' - Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews
Review: "Spirits, animals, and people cohabit the universe of these eight stories, which capture with quirky insight and deadpan humor the strangeness of human relationships." -The New Yorker "Hiromi Kawakami returns to a world of fluid transfiguration with supernatural strangeness and knowing humor." -Thu-Huong Ha, The Japan Times "Unsettling and provocative... prominent Japanese writer Kawakami and lauded Canadian professor-translator Goossen reprise their successful collaboration for People from My Neighborhood with another addictively strange collection."
-Terry Hong, Booklist "An absurdist take on the human psyche."
-Walter Sim, The Straits Times "Dragon Palace features eight surreal, emotionally affecting stories set in a world where the mystical and mundane rub elbows." -Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness "A short story collection tied together by an atmosphere of legends and metamorphosis." -Richard Medhurst, Nippon.com "Dragon Palace showcases Kawakami's knack for blending folklore and surrealism into modern day social politics and life experience." -Books and Bao "Unique and attention-grabbing, Dragon Palace is a collection of open-ended fantasy tales about thwarted love and lost opportunities."
-Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews "A vivid, disturbing collection"
-M.A.Orthofer, The Complete Review "Exceedingly unique... Kawakami melds the mundane and banal with the surreal and fantastic, to good effect."
-Cameron Bassindale, The Japan Society Review Description"How can a person resist?"--The Paris Review Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, 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. |