{"product_id":"9781529951523-rat-city","title":"City of Rats","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome to the gutters of 1970s Paris – and the transgressive, darkly comic world of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCity of Rats\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen pet rat Gouri finds himself locked out of his owner’s apartment, he has no choice but to strike out alone onto the pavements of Paris. But what begins as a strange and marvellous bedtime story - Gouri and his new friend Raka selling flour-coated worms to pigeons for spare change - soon spirals into an exhilarating whirlwind of murder, sex, unionised hamsters, courtroom drama, and, finally, Armageddon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold through a series of letters from Gouri to Argentinian playwright Copi, \u003ci\u003eCity of Rats\u003c\/i\u003e channels Copi’s lifelong fascination with society’s outcasts - queer people, immigrants, the homeless - into a fiercely imaginative, unflinchingly provocative tale of a world hurtling into madness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The greatest miniaturist of our age… Copi was a man of the Baroque, a Shakespeare, magically reincarnated in gay Paris' Cesar Aira\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Decadent, poised, unpredictable, violent, galling, and marvellous' \u003ci\u003eCharlie Hebdo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRANSLATED BY KIT SCHLUTER; WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CESAR AIRA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55893349466486,"sku":"9781529951523","price":12.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39933363_57ff69e8-2023-4739-9c2e-1eefffa260c5.jpg?v=1770830841","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529951523-rat-city","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}