Ghost Cities

By Siang Lu

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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702268496
• ISBN13: 9780702268496
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.9" x 6.0"