Hey, mates,
Yep, now confirmed – my second novel One Hundred Years of Vicissitude has just been published and is available as a paperback through new imprint Perfect Edge Books.
The novel is available here via Amazon USA – only $14 @ the moment (a $4 discount) in case anyone is… er… vaguely curious.
The Kindle version isn’t yet available, and orders through Amazon UK and Amazon Japan take a little longer. Still, friends of mine in Scotland and San Francisco already have a copy – though I haven’t seen one yet.
What’s the synopsis?
Roughly-speaking, this is the story of identical twin geisha born on the first day of the Great Depression, one of whom loathes the other; it’s 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…
Some of the action also takes place in Melbourne as this is 5% a sequel/prequel to Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, which is actually available as a free PDF/epub.
Anyway, if you're bored, take a look-see. And the pretentious-sounding title is tongue-in-cheek, fear not...
Cheers,
Andrez
BUY IT.
Seriously, guys. BUY IT. I love this book, we just re-issued the Books and Booze ep where we chat with Andrez about this book, and I am reminded all over again why I tell people this was my favorite read of the year. I'm ordering a paperback just to have on the shelf even though I have an e-copy. I refuse to believe that anyone who reads this book won't love it.
I'm getting a print copy as well. It's one I want on my shelf and will re-read. I highly recommend it.
Ah, you guys rock my li'l world. Thank YOU. Simple as that. ;)
@averydoll...I hope you follow through on that. I've heard great things about this book, both here in the threads and on Books and Booze, so I'd like to borrow that from you after you finish it.
Ta, Sean.
Just put together this diatribe on the background sources/reference points/influences that help to make up the new novel - big thanks to Elizabeth A. White for the wunderbar opportunity - think Japanese movies, flowers, the Wizard of Oz, 007, noir, etc, etc.
http://www.elizabethawhite.com/2012/10/15/one-hundred-years-of-underpinnings-by-andrez-bergen/
