Ghost cities
Lu, Siang2024
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Ghost 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 recreated, page by page and book by book -- all in the name of love and art?
Main title:
Ghost cities / by Siang Lu.
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Imprint:
St Lucia, Queensland : UQP, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
293 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780702268496 (paperback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
462961
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