Dragon Palace

Dragon Palace has eight stories that compete with each other in a contest of surrealism. All the stories have heavy doses of fantasy with elements of magical realism. I also found the stories to have an ambiguity and texture that is usually found in folktales—not the ironed-out versions that cater to the moralistic needs of modern sensibilities, but the real dark and brooding tales that old grandmothers used to tell during pitch-black nights decades ago.