{"product_id":"dragon-palace-hiromi-kawakami-9781737625353","title":"Dragon Palace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncluded in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker's\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, \u003cbr\u003e myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, \u003cbr\u003eand destiny.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo \u003c\/i\u003ecomes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hiromi Kawakami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1737625350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781737625353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/31\/2023","brand":"Hiromi Kawakami","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131950362879,"sku":"9781737625353","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6cfff1d4-d717-420c-a522-09a20a33bdfe.jpg?v=1687477352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dragon-palace-hiromi-kawakami-9781737625353","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}