{"product_id":"9780702268496-secondhand-ghost-cities","title":"Ghost Cities","description":"Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.\n\nGhost 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. \n\nHow 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? \n\nAllegorical and imaginative, Ghost Cities will appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46851829694683,"sku":"9780702268496-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/529ccfc2-d1a8-487b-8e4f-6647ab741b4d.jpg?v=1749090681","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780702268496-secondhand-ghost-cities","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}