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Curved Jewels
Paperback
Publisher: Hybrid Sequence Media
Published: Jan 16 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Tom Bradley doesn't write novels-he detonates diplomatic scandals in prose. Curved Jewels is
a literary nerve agent disguised as fiction, smuggled out of the Imperial Palace and injected
straight into your bloodstream.
This isn't a story. It's a jailbreak. The Crown Princess of Japan-brilliant linguist, coerced consort,
reluctant martyr-slips through the gilded cage of Hirohito's legacy with the help of two shady
American expatriates. What follows is a hallucinogenic fugue of flesh trades, psychic sabotage,
and bureaucratic blasphemy.
Bradley's sentences don't behave. They twitch, they bleed, they chant. He drags you through a
labyrinth of imperial rot and ecstatic rebellion, where the sacred and the profane share a
toothbrush and the sublime wears a cockroach crown.
Are you ready to have your mind bent, your soul audited, and your literary safe-word utterly
ignored? This is the book they warned you about. This is the book that reads you.
--Morgen Mofó, authoress of 'SCHMUCKSTÜCK KOORVAH' in Dragonsprach
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