The Inventory of Small Gods
Lin Zhao
- Status
- Available
- Territories
- Worldwide
- Chain of title
- Independently held — verified
- Rights available
- Film & television · Audio · Translation · Stage
The Inventory of Small Gods
Lin Zhao
A pawnbroker in a city of forgotten deities begins to receive the gods themselves — one household object at a time.
- Published
- 2024
- Length
- 251 pages
- ISBN
- 978-1-998201-08-3
- Source format
- Novel
- Scale
- Contained
- Audience
- Adult
- Setting
- A pawnshop in a city of forgotten household gods
- Territories
- Worldwide
- Chain of title
- Independently held — verified
Adaptation
A limited series or feature of a ledger and a counter: gods arrive as objects, polite and diminished. Magical realism with inventory. Funny in the way true belief is funny. Episode as ticket, season as theology.
Synopsis
People bring what they can no longer keep: a key, a comb, a porcelain bird. Then they start bringing things that should not be objects at all. Zhao''s pawnshop is a theology of the secondhand. Each god arrives diminished, polite, and in need of a ticket. The Inventory of Small Gods is magical realism with a ledger. Funny in the way true belief is funny, and precise about what we sell when we are finished worshipping it.
Comparable films / series
The Green Knight; Amélie; Midnight in Paris
Comparable books
The House of the Spirits; Piranesi; How to Stop Time
Awards, sales & credentials
Independently published 2024. Cult independent readership. No prior screen option.
Rights on offer
- Film & television
- Audio
- Translation
- Stage
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