{"product_id":"the-forest-brims-over-9781640095373","title":"The Forest Brims Over","description":"\u003cb\u003eA woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband's novels--this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the literary world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNowatari Rui has long been the subject of her husband's novels, depicted as a pure woman who takes great pleasure in sex. With her privacy and identity continually stripped away, she has come to be seen by society first and foremost as the inspiration for her husband's art. When a decade's worth of frustrations reaches its boiling point, Rui consumes a bowl of seeds, and buds and roots begin to sprout all over her body. Instead of taking her to a hospital, her husband keeps her in an aquaterrarium, set to compose a new novel based on this unsettling experience. But Rui breaks away from her husband by growing into a forest--and in time, she takes over the entire city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs fantasy and reality bleed together, \u003ci\u003eThe Forest Brims Over\u003c\/i\u003e challenges unconscious gender biases and explores the boundaries between art and exploitation--muse abuse--in the literary world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARU AYASE\u003c\/b\u003e has published seventeen books, many of which have been finalists for major awards in Japan. \u003ci\u003eThe Forest Brims Over\u003c\/i\u003e is her first title to be translated into English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHAYDN TROWELL\u003c\/b\u003e is an Australian literary translator of modern and contemporary Japanese fiction. His translations include \u003ci\u003eTouring the Land of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove at Six Thousand Degrees\u003c\/i\u003e by Maki Kashimada, \u003ci\u003eThe Mud of a Century\u003c\/i\u003e by Yuka Ishii, and \u003ci\u003eThe Rainbow \u003c\/i\u003eby Yasunari Kawabata.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604796444946,"sku":"9781640095373","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_efbdfb3f-8ccc-4d4e-b122-3e6531713522.jpg?v=1732264195","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-forest-brims-over-9781640095373","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}