{"product_id":"dragon-palace","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, 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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57402133119358,"sku":"NW9781737625353","price":12.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781737625353.jpg?v=1778660743","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dragon-palace","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}