description: In the short fiction of Angela Carter, the landmarks of reality disappear and give way to a landscape of riotous and uncensored sensibility. The city of Tokyo turns into a mirrored chamber reflecting the impossible longings of an exiled Englishwoman abandoned by her Japanese lover. An itinerant puppet show becomes a theatre of murderous lust. A walk through the forest ends in a nightmarish encounter with a gun-toting nymph and her hermaphrodite 'aunt'. Not simply a book of tales, Fireworks is a headlong plunge into an alternate universe, the unique creation of one of the most fertile, dark, irreverent, and baroquely beautiful imaginations in contemporary fiction.
language: English
title: Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
titlecomplete: Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
genres: Japan, Gothic, Womens, Fiction, Short Story Collection, Short Stories, Fantasy, Horror, Magical Realism, British Literature
ratings_count: 1160
publisher: QUARTET BOOKS