{"product_id":"jade-cabinet-by-rikki-ducornet-9781628975116","title":"Jade Cabinet","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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's own Dragon of Industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fourth element in a tetralogy of novels - Earth (\u003ci\u003eThe Stain\u003c\/i\u003e), Fire (\u003ci\u003eEntering Fire\u003c\/i\u003e), Water (\u003ci\u003eThe Fountains of Neptune\u003c\/i\u003e) and Air - \u003ci\u003eThe Jade Cabinet\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Jade Cabinet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLinguistically explosive... One of the most interesting American writers around. - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712035213548,"sku":"9781628975116","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27170233482767.jpg?v=1754270821","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/jade-cabinet-by-rikki-ducornet-9781628975116","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}