The author draws on myth and folklore in this fine collection of her stories; some readers will remember her wonderful work of non-fiction Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Fo... read more
These spirits and their bizarre manifestations are not taken straight from the Japanese but rather from the English collections of the Meiji and Taisho eras, including those of Lafcadio Hear... read more
Stories by the auctioneer, humorous and unsentimental: the vicissitudes of an art dealer and his rich clients, Schiele in session with Sigmund Freud, etc.