{"product_id":"9781628975116","title":"Jade Cabinet","description":"Author: Rikki Ducornet\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781628975116\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 22 Jan 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 158\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade 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\u0026amp;#x27;s own Dragon of Industry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 - \u003ci\u003eThe Jade Cabinet \u003c\/i\u003eis both a riveting novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language and power. Following the novel is an afterword, \u0026amp;#x27;Waking to Eden,\u0026amp;#x27; in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by \u003ci\u003eThe Jade Cabinet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Linguistically explosive...One of the most interesting American writers around.\u0026amp;#x27; - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833161207966,"sku":"ADS-9781628975116","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781628975116.jpg?v=1778650763","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781628975116","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}