{"product_id":"9781737625353","title":"Dragon Palace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“How can a person resist?”—\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eParis Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality,\n myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, \nand 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","brand":"Hiromi Kawakami","offers":[{"title":"Stone Bridge Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-09-29","offer_id":44230083215615,"sku":"9781737625353","price":28.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c1b647fb-9453-4447-a3db-42eb334ca48c.jpg?v=1693003601","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781737625353","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}