{"product_id":"9780702268496-ghost-cities","title":"Ghost Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003eGhost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney’ s Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn’ t speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work. How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself? Or where a horny mountain gains sentience? Where a chess-playing automaton hides a deadly secret? Or a tale in which every book in the known Empire is destroyed – then re-created, page by page and book by book, all in the name of love and art? Allegorical and imaginative, Ghost Cities will appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Queensland Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43031895572616,"sku":"9780702268496","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/files\/ghost-cities-9780702268496-493242.jpg?v=1731002951","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9780702268496-ghost-cities","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}