The story of identical twin geisha born on the first day of the
Great Depression, one of whom loathes the other.
"First up, a disclaimer. I suspect I am a dead man. I have meagre proof, no framed‐ up certification, nothing to toss in a court of law as evidence of a rapid departure from the mortal coil. I recall a gun was involved, pressed up against my skull, and a loud explosion followed."
Thus begins our narrator in a purgatorial tour through twentieth-century Japanese history, with a ghostly geisha who has seen it all as a guide and a corrupt millionaire as her reluctant companion.
Thrown into the milieu are saké, B-29s, Lewis Carroll, Sir Thomas Malory, Melbourne, The Wizard of Oz, and a dirigible - along with the allusion that Red Riding Hood might just be involved.
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AMAZON US AMAZON UK"Dreamlike and bewitchingly evocative." A FLAWED MIND "A unique, memorable story—indescribable, exhilarating." FORCES OF GEEK "A terrific book!" BARE BONES "Quirky, poignant, and utterly brilliant." DRYING INK "Hard-boiled and entertaining." ZOUCH MAGAZINE "A wildly enchanting journey down the rabbit hole." ELIZABETH A. WHITE
Melbourne-born Andrez Bergen is an expatriate Australian author, journalist, DJ, photographer and musician, based in Tokyo, Japan, over the past eleven years. Aside from specializing in Japanese culture, anime, movies, and electronic music’s various tangents, Bergen has written fiction for Another Sky Press, Crime Factory, Shotgun Honey and Snubnose Press, worked with anime director Mamoru Oshii, and did a book of prose in collaboration with Polish photographer Tomek Sikora. He published his debut novel 'Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat' in 2011 and a second novel, One Hundred Years of Vicissitude, via Perfect Edge in 2012 that went to #1 at Amazon. You can find out more about what he's doing right now in this interview with the Chicago News.
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