{"product_id":"tse-dorothy-city-like-water","title":"Tse, Dorothy - City Like Water","description":"A dream elegy for the political death of Hong Kong,\nfrom the author ofOwlish.\nThe city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Though\nso much has vanished with it - classmates, teachers, counterfeit watches, the\nerotic toe cleavage that used to lead the way down secret passages - you still\ncatch snatches of conversation lingering in the air and glimpse sun-dazzled\nresidents retreating into dark crevices.\nBut then the disappearances come closer to home. Your mother joins in a\nhousewives' protest over fake lotus roots only to be turned into a glittering\nbronze statue by the police. Then it's just you and your father at home, until\nhe is quietly absorbed into the enormous new TV gifted by the government,\nand you spot him picking through leftovers in the background of soap operas.\nAnd didn't you once have a little sister, before she flew away in her school\nuniform? As the police go undercover and transform your neighborhood into\na violent labyrinth you can no longer navigate, where does this leave you?\nLucid, nightmarish and indelible, City Like Water is a wondrous and pointed\nmessage in a bottle from a city not so different from your own.","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50907756495126,"sku":"RMX-60010","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/ef74d562a5c58523bc548499c92bb31a.jpg?v=1767708647","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/tse-dorothy-city-like-water","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}