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Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023
Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality,
myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology,
and destiny.
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.
Table des matières
Stories included in Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami1. Hokusai
2. The Dragon Palace
3. Fox’s Den
4. The Kitchen God
5. Mole
6. The Roar
7. Shimazaki
8. Sea Horse
A propos de l'auteur
HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan’s most popular novelists. Many of her books have been published in English, including
Manazuru, The Nakano Thrift Shop, Parade, Record of a Night Too Brief, Strange Weather in Tokyo (shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2013), and
The Ten Loves of Nishino.
People from My Neighborhood, translated by Ted Goossen, was published in 2020.
TED GOOSSEN is the editor of
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories. He translated Haruki Murakami’s
Wind/Pinball and
The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel)
Men Without Women and
Killing Commendatore.
Résumé
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023
Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality,
myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology,
and destiny.
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.
Préface
- Co-op available
- National
print campaign – Galleys/e-galleys sent toThe New York Times,
The New York Review of Books, The Japan Times, Kyoto Journal, Japan
Forward, Nippon, Nikkei Asian Review, LA Times, and other national and
fiction and Japan-interest media and reviewer
- Virtual book talks with Japan Societies in USA.
- Podcast interviews with book-related podcasts such as Books on Asia, Asian Review of Books.
- Excerpts
in Lithub, The New Yorker, The New York Times. (Author has previously
placed excerpts in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/books/books-tokyo-japan.html)
- Promotion
through the author's/translator's website and social media channels:
https://monkeymagazine.org/
- Special
outreach for reviews and interviews with the author and translator to
English-language Japanese media including NHK, The Japan Times, The
Asahi Shimbun, Japan Today and more.
