{"product_id":"all-flowers-bloom-kawika-guillermo-9781941755129","title":"All Flowers Bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Winner of the 2021 Reviewers Choice Gold Award for Best General Fiction\/Novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A defiant and tender call for the power of love, across a thousand lifetimes and lands. Guillermo's imagination is breath-taking, and he shows the power of the written word as at once the most high-fidelity and stylized of mediums.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Grace of Kings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kawika Guillermo has achieved an ambitious feat: to chronicle a memory-and its vast empire of battles and love, constant guises and surprises-that spans over four thousand years through a narrator who, like the beloved, is blessed, or cursed, with hundreds of lives, each rebirth announcing a different milieu, a different role. At its core, All Flowers Bloom is a lover's discourse on desire, its multiple masks and power to make lovers and strangers, and traitors and rescuers out of us.\"\u003cbr\u003e-R. Zamora Linmark, author of Rolling the R's and Leche\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"All Flowers Bloom is a beguiling book, with an inventive narrative unlike anything I have encountered before. This is an emotional journey through lifetimes and loves and losses. Kawika Guillermo delivers wonderment and surprise, a complex universe, and an unforgettable cast of characters.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a cruise ship stateroom, a soul awakens in the afterlife, still dressed in the Roman servant garbs of his previous life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe can't remember much, but a silent woman stands out in his memory: his first and only love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnable to cope with an eternity without her, he leaps from the ship and back into the depths of the life stream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive hundred years later, he awakens again in the same stateroom, alone and fueled with new memories of her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his past lives she was a male insurgent, an elderly wise woman, an unruly servant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a millennia the pair are tethered together, clashing in love and fear, betraying each other in times of war and famine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore memory drives him mad, he vows to rescue her from the stream - even if it takes a thousand lifetimes more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kawika Guillermo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1941755127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941755129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Westphalia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Kawika Guillermo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995879997695,"sku":"9781941755129","price":17.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48e63bb2-440f-41c3-989b-f95f75c3fdbb.jpg?v=1683338402","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-flowers-bloom-kawika-guillermo-9781941755129","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}