{"lc_classifications": ["PZ7.D1565 He 1998"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Fujiwara no Mitsuko finds herself cursed by ghosts and bad luck. The furious spirit of a dead king demands she keep a forgotten promise, and he gives her a series of impossible tasks. If she fails, the spirit will hand her over to the Lord of the Dead.\r\n\r\nDesperate, Mitsuko again turns to the mischievous shape-shifter Goranu for help. By his side, she journeys through a landscape of Japanese myths and ledgends made real, and through his lessons in the Way of the Tengu, she gradually learns to think for herself."}, "title": "The heavenward path", "subject_times": ["Heian period, 794-1185"], "covers": [6800654, 113090], "subject_places": ["Japan"], "first_publish_date": "1998", "key": "/works/OL15836898W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL217822A"}}], "dewey_number": ["[Fic]"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "History", "Supernatural", "Fantasy fiction", "Children's fiction", "Japan, fiction"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2011-07-08T06:34:04.336579"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-03-01T09:58:19.647162"}}