Officially recognized as a “national treasure of the American counterculture,” Tom Robbins is stunning readers and critics again.

…Asia, the “Promised Land” of today’s advanced intellectuals, turns under Robbins’ pen into a kaleidoscopic, surreal cocktail of ironically meaningful cliches, brilliant “anime” and “manga” references and a sharp, mocking plot.

This is a phantasmagoria, impossible for a clear plot description.

Suffice it to say only one thing: it plays an important role in it one of the most charming monsters of Japanese culture - tanuki!!!