{"id":1383,"date":"2021-07-05T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:22:45","slug":"book-the-goddess-chronicle-by-matsuo-kirino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/07\/05\/book-the-goddess-chronicle-by-matsuo-kirino\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Goddes-Chronicle-cover-698x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Goddes-Chronicle-cover-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Goddes-Chronicle-cover-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Goddes-Chronicle-cover-768x1127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Goddes-Chronicle-cover.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><figcaption>There are several other gorgeous covers available to this book.  My image doesn&#8217;t show the fabric-like texture of the image, which extends to the woman&#8217;s skin&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Goddess Chronicle<br>by Natsuo Kirino<br>translated by Rebecca Copeland<br>published by Canongate, Edinburgh<br>2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a beautiful, sad, vivid retelling of a Japanese myth (Izanami and Izanagi) that I was previously unfamiliar with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This story is narrated from the underworld, by someone who died young, and who writes of her misfortune.  On a beautiful, isolated, tropical island, she was one of countless underfed locals.  Her childhood came to an abrupt end when she was forced into a traditionally necessary taboo role&#8230; which prepared her, in some respects, for another role in the afterlife, where she learns that women being forced into taboo roles has a VERY long tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This story is lyrical, harsh, and has haunting imagery.  The modest narrator&#8217;s experiences of hunger, love, attachment, and betrayal give her deep sensitivity to the suffering of the goddess she comes to serve, and their stories interact in unexpected ways.  It is a moving story written in a timeless way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Goddess Chronicleby Natsuo Kirinotranslated by Rebecca Copelandpublished by Canongate, Edinburgh2012 This is a beautiful, sad, vivid retelling of a Japanese myth (Izanami and Izanagi) that I was previously unfamiliar with. This story is narrated from the underworld, by someone who died young, and who writes of her misfortune. On a beautiful, isolated, tropical island, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/07\/05\/book-the-goddess-chronicle-by-matsuo-kirino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[69,194],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-japanese-contemporary-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}