Jade Cabinet

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Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of Industry.

The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertiliser, where Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge. The fourth element in a tetralogy of novels - Earth (The Stain), Fire (Entering Fire), Water (The Fountains of Neptune) and Air - The Jade Cabinet is both a riveting novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language and power. Following the novel is an afterword, 'Waking to Eden,' in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by The Jade Cabinet.

'Linguistically explosive...One of the most interesting American writers around.' - The Nation

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781628975116
Published: November 2024

Number of pages: 158
Width: 139 mm
Height: 215 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press