{"product_id":"all-flowers-bloom-9781941755129","title":"All Flowers Bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Winner of the 2021 Reviewers Choice Gold Award for Best General Fiction\/Novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A defiant and tender call for the power of love, across a thousand lifetimes and lands. Guillermo's imagination is breath-taking, and he shows the power of the written word as at once the most high-fidelity and stylized of mediums.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Grace of Kings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kawika Guillermo has achieved an ambitious feat: to chronicle a memory-and its vast empire of battles and love, constant guises and surprises-that spans over four thousand years through a narrator who, like the beloved, is blessed, or cursed, with hundreds of lives, each rebirth announcing a different milieu, a different role. At its core, All Flowers Bloom is a lover's discourse on desire, its multiple masks and power to make lovers and strangers, and traitors and rescuers out of us.\"\u003cbr\u003e-R. Zamora Linmark, author of Rolling the R's and Leche\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"All Flowers Bloom is a beguiling book, with an inventive narrative unlike anything I have encountered before. This is an emotional journey through lifetimes and loves and losses. Kawika Guillermo delivers wonderment and surprise, a complex universe, and an unforgettable cast of characters.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a cruise ship stateroom, a soul awakens in the afterlife, still dressed in the Roman servant garbs of his previous life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe can't remember much, but a silent woman stands out in his memory: his first and only love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnable to cope with an eternity without her, he leaps from the ship and back into the depths of the life stream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive hundred years later, he awakens again in the same stateroom, alone and fueled with new memories of her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his past lives she was a male insurgent, an elderly wise woman, an unruly servant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a millennia the pair are tethered together, clashing in love and fear, betraying each other in times of war and famine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore memory drives him mad, he vows to rescue her from the stream - even if it takes a thousand lifetimes more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Westphalia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478315864338,"sku":"9781941755129","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6919abda-83ee-43f3-985b-5c4dc15dce9d.jpg?v=1730295921","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-flowers-bloom-9781941755129","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}