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Villa Incognito is a novel by Tom Robbins published in 2003. The author opens the novel with the line, "It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute.", as the reader is introduced to a Japanese ancestor spirit, named Tanuki, that is similar in appearance to a badger.[1]
Villa Incognito begins with the story of Tanuki, an ancient Japanese badger-like creature who possesses the ability to shapeshift and a penchant for sake and women. Tanuki is a "semi-god" with an unusually large scrotum and is portrayed alongside a beautiful young female character, who continues Tanuki's lineage with the use of a chrysanthemum seed embedded in the roof of her mouth, three American MIAs who deliberately remain in Laos long after the United States (US)' involvement in the Vietnam War has ended, and two sisters, who are related to one of the missing American soldiers.
Following the arrest of one of the MIAs, for trafficking drugs while dressed as a priest, the novel depicts American life in a post-9/11 context through the involvement of the two sisters.
Richmond, Virginia, Virginia, Korea, Wild Ducks Flying Backward, North Carolina
American Airlines Flight 77, United Airlines Flight 93, Al-Qaeda, Iraq War, The Pentagon
Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Vientiane, French Indochina
North Vietnam, United States, Cold War, South Vietnam, Korean War
Kitsune, Yōkai, Tokushima Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture, Buddhism
Tom Robbins, Vatican City, Skagit County, Washington, Doubleday (publisher), 1971 In Literature
Tom Robbins, Bible, Stephen Sondheim, Broadway theatre, International Standard Book Number