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Ghost cities / Siang Lu.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF LU	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. On Loan .	25 Jun 2024
AF LU	Adult Fiction		Earlwood .	. On Loan .	29 Jun 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780702268496 (paperback)
Name	Lu, Siang author.
Title	Ghost cities / Siang Lu.
Published	St Lucia, Queensland : UQP, 2024.
Published	©2024
Description	293 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Summary	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?
Subjects	Megacities -- Fiction
Subjects	Australian fiction
Genre	Psychological fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australian fiction . Megacities -- Fiction . Psychological fiction . See Also: Australian literature . Children's stories, Australian . Science fiction, Australian . Short stories, Australian . Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: Lu, Siang .