In the mind of Ayako, an old woman in exile on a mountain in medievalJapan, nothing is certain, and nothing holds a familiar shape for long. This isa map of a psyche exalted and destroyed by solitude, and on its contortedsurface Shinto philosophy, Greek mathematics, Hawaiian goddesses, Egyptianlegend, quantum physics, and Babylonian myth meet and merge...
InCatherynne M. Valente's second novel since the critically acclaimed TheLabyrinth, language and myth construct a strange new geography of theself.
This is The Book of Dreams: open it and walk the shadowy paths ofthis extraordinary landscape.
- ISBN10 0809510871
- ISBN13 9780809510870
- Publish Date 4 September 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wildside Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English