by Kij Johnson, Claire Eddy
"Every cat is an echo of the first cat I knew, the little nun, Shisutako.""And it was twilight one day in the ninth month, and the world was shades of dim purple, like my subtlest robes. The little nun stepped slowly off the veranda to a stone, and then to the round gravel of my courtyard, her fur t...
This one is a historical fantasy set in 12th Century Japan. It has two intertwined stories, one of an aging princess, Harueme, and the other of the story the princess is writing about a cat that turns into a woman. There are a lot of parallels between the two stories and you get the sense that Har...
How have so few people read this book? I will have to pimp it all over Goodreads now because Fudoki is simply lovely.This book is two stories rolled into one. In 12th century Japan, Harueme, an elderly princess, sits down to write a story that's just itching to get out: of a cat who's turned into a ...
One of the most thoughtful, rich, and delicious books I've read in a while.
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