{"product_id":"dragon-palace-9781737625353","title":"Dragon Palace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"How can a person resist?\" --\u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and 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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781737625353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160","brand":"Hiromi Kawakami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059887538357,"sku":"9781737625353","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_228fedaf-365e-4f1e-bfc0-85bcf9fc41fc.jpg?v=1690300249","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dragon-palace-9781737625353","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}