Book Review: Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Ted Goossen)
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Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Ted Goossen ) is a fascinating collection of short stories that revolve around themes of transformation, human behavior and emotion and surrealism. In the first story Hokusai (3/5), we follow a strange encounter between a depressed young man and a person who claims to have once been an octopus. In Dragon Palace (4/5), a young woman is visited by her great-grandmother, who was once a god who used a creative method of manipulating her followers. Fox’s Den (3/5) follows the relationship between a fifty-three-year-old caregiver and her elderly patient. In Mole (5/5), we meet an anthropomorphized who holds an office job in the human world and shelters unhappy and lonely human beings in his home in an underground hole. We follow a married young woman, unhappy with her life and interactions with her boyfriend, neighbors and the deity that inhabits her kitchen in The Kitchen God (4/5). The Roar (3/5)chronicles a young b