{"product_id":"city-of-rats","title":"City of Rats","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly comic and wildly transgressive fever dream of a book, following one lost rat on a fantastical odyssey through the strange and deranged underbelly of Paris; this is Ratatouille on acid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the gutters of 1970s Paris - and the transgressive, darkly comic world of City of Rats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold through a series of letters from Gouri to Argentinian playwright Copi, City of Rats 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The greatest miniaturist of our age... Copi was a man of the Baroque, a Shakespeare, magically reincarnated in gay Paris' Cesar Aira\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Decadent, poised, unpredictable, violent, galling, and marvellous' Charlie Hebdo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRANSLATED BY KIT SCHLUTER; WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CESAR AIRA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504486748383,"sku":"9781529951523","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781529951523.jpg?v=1782773564","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/city-of-rats","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}