Fudoki

Fudoki

Title: Fudoki
Author: Kij Johnson
Release: 2004-10-01
Kind: ebook
Genre: Fantasy, Books, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Size: 387430
In her skillful debut novel, Kij Johnson took the classic Japanese myth of the fox who dared to become a woman to win true love and created The Fox Woman, a luminous, lyrical tale of love, desire, joy, and the nature of the soul.

Set in the same universe as The Fox Woman, this time Kij Johnson takes on another animal totem and enters the world of the creature who comes to be known as Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen.
And who may or may not be the figment of the imagination of an aging empress who is embarking on the last journey of her life, setting aside the trappings of court life and reminiscing as she follows the paths that are leading her to the nunnery and death.
Fudoki is the tale of a being who starts her journey on the kami, or spirit road, as a humble-if ever a being such as a Cat can be humble-small tortoiseshell feline. She has seen her family destroyed by a fire that decimated most of the Imperial city. This loss renders her taleless, the only one left alive to pass on such stories as The Cat Born the Year the Star Fell, the Cat with a Litter of Ten, the Fire-Tailed Cat. Without her fudoki-self and soul and home and shrine-she cannot keep the power of her clan together. And she cannot join another fudoki because, although she might be able to win a place within another clan, to do so would mean that she would cease to be herself.

So a small cat begins an extraordinary journey. Along the way she will attract the attention of old and ancient powers, including gods who are curious about this creature newly come to Japan's shores, and who choose to give the tortoiseshell a human shape.
And who set her on a new kami road, where Kagaya-hime will have to choose a way to find what happiness she can.

Weaving a haunting story of one being's transformation and journey of discovery with the telling of another's long life set against the backdrop of the courtly rituals of Imperial power, Kij Johnson has written a powerful novel about the nature of freedom and the redemptive power of transformation--if only one is brave enough to risk it all.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

More Books from Kij Johnson

S. Qiouyi Lu, Elizabeth Bear, Naomi Kritzer, Rich Larson, Erin Roberts, Yoon Ha Lee, Isabel Yap, G.V. Anderson, K.M. Szpara, A.T. Greenblatt, Kelly Robson, Andy Duncan, José Pablo Iriarte, Tobias S. Buckell, Brooke Bolander, Suzanne Palmer, Kij Johnson, Greg Egan & Carolyn Ives Gilman
Kij Johnson
Victor LaValle, Kij Johnson, Cassandra Khaw & Caitlín R. Kiernan
Kij Johnson
Ken Liu, Naomi Kritzer, Catherynne M. Valente, Kij Johnson, Aliette De Bodard, Jay Lake & Chen Qiufan
Neil Clarke, Kij Johnson, Yoon Ha Lee, Jay Lake, Peter Watts & Catherynne M. Valente
Neil Clarke, Aliette De Bodard, Catherynne M. Valente, Ken Liu, Kij Johnson, Carrie Vaughn, Robert Reed, Tobias S. Buckell, Sofia Samatar & Lavie Tidhar
Kij Johnson
Neil Clarke, Aliette De Bodard, Tang Fei, Naomi Kritzer, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Jay Lake, Zhang Ran, Damien Broderick & Karl Schroeder
Nina Allan, N. K. Jemisin, Kij Johnson, Seanan McGuire, Victor LaValle, Carrie Vaughn, Fran Wilde, Kai Ashante Wilson & Alyssa Wong
John Joseph Adams, N.K. Jemisin, Kij Johnson, Alexander Weinstein, Ramez Naam, Adam-Troy Castro, Chris Kluwe, Carrie Vaughn & Tochi Onyebuchi
Kij Johnson, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Ellen Klages & Jonathan Strahan
Kij Johnson
Neil Clarke, Jack Skillingstead, A.C. Wise, Leena Likitalo, Kij Johnson, Gu Shi, Cecelia Holland & Karl Bunker
Preston Grassmann, Chris Kelso, Clive Barker, Paul Di Filippo, Jeffrey Thomas, Richard A. Kirk, Kij Johnson, Priya Sharma, Tom Over, Lafciado Hearn, Eugen Bacon, Joe Koch, Anna Tambour, NUZO ONOH, Matthew Holness, Arlton Eadie, Rumi Kaneko, Thomas M. Disch, D. R. G. Sugawara, Brian Evenson, Matt Neil Hill, Dempow Torishima, H.G. Wells, E.F. Benson, Kaaron Warren, Christopher Young, Algernon Blackwood, Ramsey Campbell, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Emily Dickinson, Henri Fabre, Jon Greenaway & Gary J. Shipley
Neil Clarke, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Rich Larson, Nin Harris, Emily C. Skaftun, Kai Hudson, Kij Johnson & Catherynne M. Valente