{"product_id":"ghost-cities","title":"Ghost Cities","description":"\u003ci\u003eGhost Cities\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Allegorical and imaginative, \u003ci\u003eGhost Cities\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Ghost Cities","offer_id":44963641327813,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-7022-6849-6.jpg?v=1753924822","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/ghost-cities","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}